''' Purpose: determine the hidden super power of a CS 1112 person
'''

# need help to get web data - so import the capability
from urllib.request import urlopen

# define the base folder for course participants
BASE_CS1112_PEOPLE_URL = 'http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/people/'
FILE_NAME = 'my-power.txt'

# get computing id of interest
reply = input( 'Enter computing id: ' )

# clean up the reply to get the user id
user_id = reply.strip()
user_id = user_id.lower()

# specify web folder of indicated person
web_folder = BASE_CS1112_PEOPLE_URL + user_id + '/' 

# specify link for super power web file of indicated person
link = web_folder + FILE_NAME

# get a connection to stream the web resource of interest
stream = urlopen( link )

# read stream to get the contents of the page
content = stream.read()

# decode contents into plain text form
text = content.decode( 'UTF-8' )

# cleaned-up text is the superpower of interest
power = text.strip()

# print power
print( power )