''' Purpose: another example of reading from a web resource. see that
        certain steps are necessary each time we want to grab a web
        resource
'''

# 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()
id = id.lower()

# specify web folder of indicated person
web_folder = ...

# specify link for web file of indicated person
link = ...

# get a connection to the web resource of interest
stream = ...

# read stream to get its contents
contents = ...

# decode contents into plain text form
text = ...

# text is the web file contents of interest
print ...