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This reverts commit 1fe414764c0c2fa291b7d10d663b52c069013058. I initially wrote that commit so that plugins with echoMessage=True can get the nick/prefix from the message (eg. the SkypeRelay plugin in my personal repo). Unfortunately, this breaks any test that does equality comparison on between the result of getMsg()/takeMsg() and an IrcMsg object they crafted themselves. Additionally, the filled in nick and prefix might be inaccurate if the bot changes nick/host at the same time. So instead plugins should check for the None value. (Also, editing IrcMsgs on the fly like this isn't great, and the commit forgot to reset the `_str` attribute.)
Supybot is a robust (it doesn’t crash), user friendly (it’s easy to configure) and programmer friendly (plugins are extremely easy to write) Python IRC bot. It aims to be an adequate replacement for most existing IRC bots. It includes a very flexible and powerful ACL system for controlling access to commands, as well as more than 50 builtin plugins providing around 400 actual commands.
Limnoria is the project which continues development of Supybot since 2010.
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Limnoria supports CPython 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, nightly; and Pypy 3.
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Documentation
If this is your first install, there is an install guide. You will probably be pointed to it if you ask on IRC how to install Limnoria. TL;DR version:
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-wheel
pip3 install --user limnoria
# You might need to add $HOME/.local/bin to your PATH
supybot-wizardThere is extensive documentation at docs.limnoria.net and at Gribble wiki. We took the time to write it; you should take the time to read it.
IRC channels
In English
If you have any trouble, feel free to swing by #limnoria on freenode and ask questions. We’ll be happy to help wherever we can. And by all means, if you find anything hard to understand or think you know of a better way to do something, please post it on the issue tracker so we can improve the bot!
In Other languages
Only in French at the moment, located at #supybot-fr on freenode.