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These are the interfaces of some of the objects you'll deal with if
you code for Supybot.
ircmsgs.IrcMsg:
This is the object that represents an IRC message. It has
several methods and attributes. The most important thing
about this class, however, is that it *is* hashable, and thus
*cannot* be modified. Do not change any attributes; any code
that modifies an IRC message is *broken* and should not
exist.
Interesting Methods:
__init__: One of the more complex initializers in
a class. It can be used in three different ways:
1) It can be given a string, as one received from
the server, which it will then parse into its
separate components and instantiate the class
with those components as attributes.
2) It can be given a command, some (optional)
arguments, and a (optional) prefix, and will
instantiate the class with those components as
attributes.
3) It can be given, in addition to any of the
above arguments, a 'msg' keyword argument that
will use the attributes of msg as defaults.
This exists to make it easier to copy
messages, since the class is immutable.
__str__: This returns the message in a string form
suitable for sending to a server.
__repr__: This returns the message in a form
suitable for eval(), assuming the name "IrcMsg" is
in your namespace and is bound to this class.
Interesting Attributes:
This is the meat of this class. These are
generally what you'll be looking at with IrcMsgs.
command: This is the command of the IrcMsg --
PRIVMSG, NOTICE, WHOIS, etc.
args: This is a tuple of the arguments to the
IrcMsg. Some messages have arguments, some don't,
depending on what command they are. You are, of
course, always assured that args exists and is a
tuple, though it might be empty.
prefix: This is the hostmask of the person/server
the message is from. In general, you won't be
setting this on your outgoing messages, but
incoming messages will always have one. This is
the whole hostmask; if the message was received
from a server, it'll be the server's hostmask; if
the message was received from a user, it'll be the
whole user hostmask. In that case, however, it's
also parsed out into the nick/user/host
attributes, which are probably more useful to
check for many purposes.
nick: If the message was sent by a user, this will
be the nick of the user. If it was sent by a
server, this will be the server's name (something
like calvino.freenode.net or similar).
user: If the message was sent by a user, this will
be the user string of the user -- what they put
into their IRC client for their "full name." If
it was sent by a server, it'll be the server's
name, again.
host: If the message was sent by a user, this will
be the host portion of their hostmask. If it was
sent by a server, it'll be the server's name (yet
again :))
irclib.Irc:
This is the object to handle everything about IRC except the
actual connection to the server itself.
Interesting attributes:
nick: the current nick of the bot.
prefix: the current prefix of the bot.