python for irc client

[inhahe]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 5:22 AM inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 5:14 AM Daniel via Python-list <
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>> In your wisdom, would python be a good environment to accomplish this?
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> I think Python would be a great language to write an IRC client in, it's a
> rapid-development language, and also Python is particularly good for text
> manipulation and the IRC protocol is textual rather than binary.
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Oh yeah, I forgot I was going to mention that Twisted has already done a
lot of the dirty work for you if you make it in Python...they have twisted.
words.protocols.irc, which implements the IRC protocol. (I don't know if
it's up to date and supports ircv3, though.)