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So here's a general *programming* introduction to what the different modules do
and what services they provide. It is, however, only an introduction. Read
the modules themselves for a much more detailed explanation :)
fix.py: Just some stuff that needs to be done to make the bot work in some
older versions of Python (like 2.2 :))
cdb.py: A constant database library, translated from C (and my O'Caml version)
More information available at http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html .
ansi.py: Contains different ANSI color sequences.
Mostly used by the debug module.
debug.py: Functions for handling bugs and errors in a consistent manner
throughout the bot.
conf.py: The configuration file for the bot -- it sets a lot of variables that
other modules check for when they have questions about what they need
to do.
world.py: Just a dropping off place for some globals that need to be shared
among all the modules. It's obviously not used *a lot*, but some
things seem to fit better here than anywhere else.
bot.py: The topmost module, the one that runs the bot. It's also probably the
'dirtiest' module right now, but I'll add proper command line parsing
and clean it up a bit later.
privmsgs.py: The privmsg commands that are included by default in the bot.
It's probably most useful from a programming standpoint simply so
a new programmer can see what commands look like.
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callbacks.py: A few basic callbacks providing significant functionality.
You'll likely be inheriting from Privmsg quite a bit.
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ircdb.py: The users and channels databases are here, as well as the
IrcUser and IrcChannel classes. Look here when you want to
restrict a command to only certain users.
irclib.py: Provides the most important class in the irclib, Irc. It represents
a connection to an IRC server, but it's entirely separate from the
network implementation. It's connected to the network (or whatever
else drives it) by a "driver" module which uses its feedMsg/takeMsg
functions.
drivers.py: The baseclass (IrcDriver) for various drivers to drive irclib.Irc
classes. Also, the driving mechanism.
asyncoreDrivers.py: The asyncore-based drivers for use with the bot.
ircmsgs.py: The IrcMsg class (get to know it :)) and various functions for
making the creation of IrcMsgs easier.
ircutils.py: Various utility functions for Irc -- read the module to see what
goodies are there :)
schedule.py: A schedule driver (which is automatically registered with the
drivers module) to run things at a particular time, or at
specified periods of time.