Connecting to IRC using socket module

[Erik Heneryd]

Dag Hansteen wrote:
> Hello!
>  
> Somehow I dont make this work, can anyone please
> correct me?

Short answer: IRC expects messages to be terminated with "\r\n".
Some additional comments on your code below.

>  
> There is no error, but it just kinda halts after I get "NOTICE AUTH: *** 
> Found your hostname", I assume theres something with the PONG reply, but 
> I can't figure it out.
>  
>  
> # CODE:
>  
> from socket import *
>  
> host = "oslo.no.eu.undernet.org"
> port = 6667
> buf = 1024
> addr = (host, port)
>  
> first = 'NICK dagan'
> second = 'USER dag "" "oslo.no.eu.undernet.org" :python bot'

IRC uses "\r\n" as message terminator, you forgot those.

Also note that you're not supposed to "-quote message parameters.  Not 
that it matters here since USER params 2 and 3 are ignored anyway - the 
ircd knows what hostname it has and will do a DNS lookup to determine 
yours.  Furthermore, RFC1459 and RFC2812 don't even agree on what USER 
param 2 and 3 mean.  I'd say you can safely use * (asterisk) for both of 
them.

>  
> sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
>  
> 
> sock.connect(addr)
> sock.sendto(first, addr)
> print "-> "+first

Why do you use sendto on a TCP socket?  Use send.

>  
> sock.sendto(second, addr)
> print "-> "+second
>  
> 
> while 1:
>     data, addr = sock.recvfrom(buf)

Why do you use recvfrom on a TCP socket?  Use recv.
Be aware that you might get two or more messages in one go...

>    
>     f = open("debug.txt", "w")
>     f.write(data+"\n")
>    
>     if data.startswith("PING :"):

Be aware that the param might not be :-quoted...

>         sock.send("PONG :"+data[6:])
>         break
>    
>     else:    
>         print "<- "+data
>         print addr
>  
> print "I hope I soon will see this message.. yes, this message! woohoo"
>  
> sock.send("join #scripting")

It's JOIN, not join.

>  
> while 1:
>     data, addr = sock.recvfrom(buf)
>     print "<- "+data
> 


Erik