irctokens

rationale

there's far too many IRC client implementations out in the world that do not tokenise data correctly and thus fall victim to things like colons either being where you don't expect them or not being where you expect them.

usage

tokenisation

import irctokens
line = irctokens.tokenise(
    "@id=123 :jess!~jess@hostname PRIVMSG #chat :hello there!")

if line.command == "PRIVMSG":
    print(f"received message from {line.source}"
          f" to {line.params[0]}: {line.params[1]}")

formatting

import sockets
import irctokens

sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect(("127.0.0.1", 6667))

line = irctokens.format("USER", ["user", "0", "*", "real name"])
to_send = "%s\r\n" % line
sock.send(to_send.encode("utf8"))