''' Purpose: introducing the acquisition of web data -- determine the hidden
        super power of a CS 1112 person
'''
# to help understand these commands go to the urllib.request module on the website
# need help to get web data - so import some capabilities
import urllib.request

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

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

#id = reply.strip().lower() # This is the pythonic way of doing it. It will work

id = reply.strip() # order does not matter
id = id.lower()

# specify web folder of indicated person
person_folder = BASE_PEOPLE_URL + id + '/' #a slash means we are talking about a folder

# specify link for super power web file of indicated person
power_file = person_folder + 'super-power.txt'

#print ( power_file )

# get a connection to the web resource of interest
stream = urllib.request.urlopen( power_file )

#print( stream )

# read stream to get its contents
page = stream.read()

#print( page )

# decode contents into plain text form
text = page.decode( 'UTF-8' ) # unicode the standard US version; you will always use this

# text is the superpower of interest
print( text )