""" Purpose: translate user text to English
"""

# get access to url support
import url

# translation dictionary -- entries are of form: word,translation
BABEL_FISH_URL = "http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/words/babelfish"

# delimiters for unknown words
UNKNOWN_WORD_MARKER = "_" # we changed this from a ?

# get contents of babel fish url as a dictionary
babelfish_dictionary = url.get_dictionary( BABEL_FISH_URL ) # we changed this because dictionary was misspelled

# get the user text to be translated
reply = input( "Enter phrase to be translated: " )

# convert reply into a list of words
words_to_be_translated = reply.split()

# initialize translation accumulator
translation = "" # want a string, so starts as an empty string

# process the words for translation one by one. each word contributes to the translation

for current_word in words_to_be_translated :
    # whether current word is in the dictionary, determines our translation action
    if ( current_word in babelfish_dictionary ) :
        translation_of_current_word = babelfish_dictionary.get( current_word )
        # since we checked for membership, we could also say
        # translation_of_current_word = babelfish_dictionary[ current_word ]
    else :
        translation_of_current_word = UNKNOWN_WORD_MARKER + current_word + UNKNOWN_WORD_MARKER
    # for each word, look at it. if it is a key in the babelfish dictionary, get the translation
    # if it is not in the dictionary, get the word surrounded by underscores, our UNKNOWN_WORD_MARKER
    # now, we need to update our accumulator
    translation = translation + translation_of_current_word + " "
# print translation
print( translation )