From c6ed06ba6132f95a4e066a48ded11f9d62600149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Lu <GLolol@overdrivenetworks.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 15:20:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] utils: new splitHostmask function

---
 utils.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 7d94e31..3b3a325 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -172,6 +172,14 @@ def getDatabaseName(dbname):
     dbname += '.db'
     return dbname
 
+def splitHostmask(mask):
+    """
+    Returns a nick!user@host hostmask split into three fields: nick, user, and host.
+    """
+    nick, identhost = mask.split('!', 1)
+    ident, host = identhost.split('@', 1)
+    return [nick, ident, host]
+
 class ServiceBot():
     """
     PyLink IRC Service class.