First, I apologize if this is not the appropriate place for this.

I have a basic bot written as a mechanism for learning classes and methods.  I think I've got methods down, but classes are kicking my butt.

As a personal exercise, I'm trying to implement a check in an IRC bot to see if the person issuing a command has oper (@) status.  in IRC this is done with the 'NAMES <#channel>' command.

Google gives me this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6671620/list-users-in-irc-channel-using-twisted-python-irc-framework

My own research points me to this:
http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/words/protocols/irc.py#L448

Now, is stackoverflow overriding that method or was it perhaps written prior to the implementation of the irc.py portion I linked to?

My code is here.  I am attempting to parse the names list at line 110
http://bpaste.net/show/Fll7at9Z3b8nD6GDNN14/

I don't know if I should be using twisted/words/protocols/irc.py or twisted/words/im/ircsupport.py.

Can someone point me in the right direction as to what I need to do to grab the list of names at that particular spot using Twisted's in methods?  If it cannot be done with the Twisted's methods, am I to understand that's what the StackOverflow post was doing?

Yes, I know the code is ugly.  I can clean it up after I understand what I'm doing more fully.



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