[Toolserver-l] Two beginner questions

[Sumurai8 (DD)]

irc listening with python is fairly easy; just use a socket

import socket
IRC = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
IRC.connect(('irc.freenode.net', 6667))
while True:
    text = IRC.recv(1024)
    msgs = text.split('\n')
    for msg in msgs:
        if msg.split(' ', 1)[0] == "PING":
            pong = msg.split(' ', 1)[1]
            IRC.send("PONG %s" % pong)
        print msg

If you want to do periodically things, like writing the output to a
file very 10 minutes, you have to set a timeout. Otherwise the script
will wait at the recv-line till it receives data

2010/12/9 Alex Brollo <alex.brollo at gmail.com>
>
> 1. I'm testing my skill and I run my script under cron. The python script begin with these rows (and it runs):
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import os,sys
> if not sys.platform=="win32":
>     sys.path.append('/home/alebot/pywikipedia')
>     os.chdir("/home/alebot/scripts")
>
> Then I tried to move to batch job sheduling, but... my script gives an error: now the server dislikes sys.path row. Why? I obviously have to study more: but what/where have I sto study? :-(
> 2. The script bring into life a python bot, who reads RecentChanges at 10 minutes intervals by a cron routine. Is perhaps more efficient a #irc bot listening it.wikisource #irc channel for recent changes in your opinion? Where can I find a good python script to read #irc channels?
> Thanks - I apologize for so banal questions.
> Alex
>
>
>
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