''' Purpose: read a student haiku off the web by making use of module url.py
'''

# need help to get web data - so import some capabilities from a local module
import url

# define the base folder for course participants
BASE_PEOPLE_URL = 'http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/people/'

# get computing id of into canonical form;
reply = input( 'Enter computing id: ' )

id = reply.strip() 
id = id.lower() 

# specify web folder of classmate
folder = BASE_PEOPLE_URL + id + '/'  

# specify link for their haiku
web_file = folder + 'poem.txt'

# get the haiku

haiku = url.get_contents( web_file )

# print the haiku
print( haiku )