Socket Programming

[Peter Hansen]

trainee wrote:
> 
> Thanks, everyone.
> Michael: I am really just fooling around for the moment.  Are you telling me
> that there are modules for specific things like IRC?

In addition to the other responses to this: the Twisted package does include
IRC support, along with dozens of other protocols and both higher and lower
level things galore, generally or at least often done in a way that vastly 
simplifies the whole issue well beyond what other approaches have managed.
Go to www.twistedmatrix.com to learn more.

-Peter