import urllib.request

# where should we obtain data from?
url = "http://cims.nyu.edu/~kapp/python/most_popular_words_in_english.txt"

# attempt to access www.nyu.edu
try:

	# initiate request to URL
	response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    
	# read data from URL as a String, making sure
	# that the String is formatted as a series of ASCII characters
	data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
    
    
# an error occurred!  handle it here
except:
	print ("Something went wrong!")


# if we made it past the except, then everything went as planned

# let's split our data into a list
split_data = data.split("\n")

# get the user to pick a word
word = input("What word would you like me to search for?")

# determine if user's word is in our list or not
if word in split_data:
    print("Your word is one of the 100 most popular words!")

else:
    print("Sorry, your word is not one of the most popular words.")