''' Purpose: practice getting data from a useful dataset
'''

# define the base folder for course csv datasets
# THIS BASE LINK!!
CSV_WEB_FOLDER = "http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/datasets/csv/"

###############  BOILER PLATE TO GET CONTENTS OF WEB FILE ###############

# need help to get web data - so import the capability
from url import get_contents

# get name of the dataset
reply = input( "Enter name of dataset: " )

print()

# clean up the reply to get file name
file_name = reply.strip()

# get url link for dataset
link = CSV_WEB_FOLDER + file_name

text = get_contents( link )

print( text )


###############  TURN CONTENTS INTO A LIST OF LINES  ###############

# turn the text into data; i.e., a list of lines
lines = text.split( "\n" )

print( "Lines=", lines )
###############  TURN LINES INTO A DATASET -- LIST OF LISTS  ###############

# get csv rows into dataset from
dataset = [] # OUTER LIST FOR OUR LIST OF LISTS - We will put more lists
# into this larger list!

for line in lines :
    # clean up the line
    line = line.strip()
    # split the line to cells
    cells = line.split(",") # Why do we split on comma? We get
    # each thing separated in a line and put it into a list
    # so that we can use everything in that list for our rows that
    # we're building up.
    print( "Cells=", cells)
    row = []
    for cell in cells :
        # clean up the cell
        ...

        # add the cell to the row
        ...

    # add the row of data to our dataset
    ...

# print the dataset 

for row in dataset :
    print( row )