IRC Python Bot: Best Way
Question: I want to build a bot that basically does the following:

  1. Listens to the room and interacts with users and encourages them to PM the bot.
  2. Once a user has PMed the bot engage with the client using various AI techniques. 

Should I just use the IRC library or Sockets in python or do I need more of a
bot framework.

What would you do?

Thanks!

Here is the code I'm currently using, however, I haven't gotten it to work.

    
    
    #!/usr/bin/python 
    import socket
    network = 'holmes.freenet.net'
    port = 6667
    irc = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
    irc.connect ( ( network, port ) )
    irc.send ( 'NICK PyIRC\r\n' )
    irc.send ( 'USER PyIRC PyIRC PyIRC :Python IRC\r\n' )
    irc.send ( 'JOIN #pyirc\r\n' )
    irc.send ( 'PRIVMSG #pyirc :Can you hear me?\r\n' )
    irc.send ( 'PART #pyirc\r\n' )
    irc.send ( 'QUIT\r\n' )
    irc.close()
    


Answer: Use [Twisted](http://twistedmatrix.com) or
[Asynchat](http://docs.python.org/library/asynchat.html) if you want to have a
sane design. It is possible to just do it with sockets but why bother doing it
from scratch?

