import urllib.request

BASE_URL = 'http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs1112/people/'

reply = input( 'Enter computing id: ' )

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

person_url = BASE_URL + id + '/'

link = person_url + 'poem.txt'  #recognise and rememmber this pattern

stream = urllib.request.urlopen( link )

contents = stream.read()

print( contents)

text = contents.decode( 'UTF-8' )

print( text )

text = text.strip()

lines = text.split('\n')
print ( lines )

cleaned_lines = []

for line in lines:
    clean = line.strip()
    cleaned_lines.append(clean)

print( cleaned_lines ) # backslash is in front of an escape character forward is division