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import socket
import time
import random

HOST = "irc.freenode.net"
HOME_CHANNEL = "##apbothome"
NICK = "Sheldon-Cooper"
PORT = 6667
SYMBOL = "#"
blank = ""

def ping(msg):
  s.send("PONG :"+ msg +"\r\n")

def joinchan(channel):
  s.send("JOIN "+ channel +"\r\n")

def output(context):
  s.send("PRIVMSG "+ CHANNEL +" :%s\r\n" % context)

def getNick():
  nick = line[1:].split("!")[0]
  return nick

def hello(sender):
  output("Hello "+ sender)

greetings = ['gday','g\'day','hello','hey']
#Makes the code smaller.
#I'll look through this using for .. in .. later.

s = socket.socket( )
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
s.send("USER "+ NICK +" "+ NICK +" "+ NICK +" :This bot was coded by webb\n")
s.send("NICK "+ NICK +"\r\n")
s.send("JOIN "+ HOME_CHANNEL +"\r\n")

while 1:
  line = s.recv(2048)
  line = line.strip("\r\n")
  print line

  complete = line.split(":", 2)
  info = complete[1]


  if ("PING :" in line):
    pingcmd = line.split(":", 1)
    pingmsg = pingcmd[1]
    ping(pingmsg)

  elif ("JOIN" in info):
    print blank

  elif ("PART" in info):
    print blank


  else:

    infosplit = info.split(" ")
    msg = complete[2]
    arg = msg.split(" ")
    cmd = arg[0]
    
    CHANNEL = infosplit[2]

    if (cmd == "#join"):
      x = line.split(" ", 4)
      newchannel = x[4]
      joinchan(newchannel)

    if len(arg)>1:
        for each in greetings: #checks everything in greetings against cmd[0]
            if each == cmd[0]:
                hello(arg[1])