Extending the bot in python's IRC library

Question

I am attempting to extend the example bot that comes with this IRC library here. I've repasted the code of said bot here.

My problem is that I don't quite see what needs to be modified in order to enable the bot to respond to events, like getting a message - there's no event dispatcher that I can see.

What I can do is

bot = irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot(server_list = [('irc.whatever.net.', 6667)],realname = 'irclibbot',nickname = 'irclibbot',)
bot.start()

and it runs fine - connects to the network and all that, but it doesn't do anything. Doesn't even respond to the basic CTCP events like VERSION and PING.

How does this work?

Answer 1

Check out this example of what you need to do.

class TestBot(irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot):
    def __init__(self, channel, nickname, server, port=6667):
        irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot.__init__(self, [(server, port)], nickname, nickname)
    def on_nicknameinuse(self, c, e):
        c.nick(c.get_nickname() + "_")

    def on_welcome(self, c, e):
        c.join(self.channel)

    def on_privmsg(self, c, e):
        self.do_command(e, e.arguments[0])

Define your own class that inherits from the actual irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot class. Then, the events will automatically be bound to the methods named on_'event' like on_privmsg, on_part, etc.

Here you can find the reference of the supported events.