net/py-irclib 0.8.2 OpenBSD

The Python IRC library is intended to encapsulate the IRC protocol at a quite low level. It provides an event-driven IRC client framework. It has a fairly thorough support for the basic IRC protocol, CTCP and DCC connections.

The main features of the IRC client framework are:

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