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How do i program a simple IRC bot in python?

I need help writing a basic IRC bot that just connects to a channel.. is anyone able to explain this to me? I have managed to get it to connect to the IRC server but I am unable to join a channel and log on. The code I have thus far is:

import sockethost = 'irc.freenode.org'
port = 6667
join_sock = socket.socket()
join_sock.connect((host, port))
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • It'd probably be easiest to base it on twisted's implementation of the IRC protocol. Take a look at : http://github.com/brosner/bosnobot for inspiration.