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The Python IRC library is intended to encapsulate the IRC protocol at a
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quite low level. It provides an event-driven IRC client framework. It
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has a fairly thorough support for the basic IRC protocol, CTCP and DCC
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connections.
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The main features of the IRC client framework are:
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* Abstraction of the IRC protocol.
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* Handles multiple simultaneous IRC server connections.
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* Handles server PONGing transparently.
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* Messages to the IRC server are done by calling methods on an IRC
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connection object.
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* Messages from an IRC server triggers events, which can be caught
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by event handlers.
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* Reading from and writing to IRC server sockets are normally done
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by an internal select() loop, but the select()ing may be done by an
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external main loop.
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* Functions can be registered to execute at specified times by the
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event-loop.
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* Decodes CTCP tagging correctly (hopefully); I haven't seen any
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other IRC client implementation that handles the CTCP specification
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subtilties.
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* A kind of simple, single-server, object-oriented IRC client class
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that dispatches events to instance methods is included.
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* DCC connection support.
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