''' Purpose: print contents of a user-indicated web page
'''

# get url link of interest
reply = input( "Enter url: " )

###############  BOILERPLATE TO GET CONTENTS OF WEB FILE ###############

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

# clean up the reply
link = reply.strip()

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

# read stream to gets its encoded contents
page = stream.read()

# decode page into plain text form
text = page.decode()

###############             END OF BOILERPLATE           ###############

# the above code is tedious, need a function to do take care this crud

import url

text = url.get_contents( link )

# now let's get the lines that make up the text
...

# print the lines one by one
...