rendered paste bodyimport socketserver = 'irc.freenode.net'port = 6667nickname = 'ROBOGOMER'channel = '#uberchat'sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)sock.connect((server, port))print 'connected'sock.send("USER Gomer Gomer Gomer :Gomer 'teh noob' Geoff.\r\n")sock.send("NICK " + nickname)print 'nickname and username sent'sock.send("JOIN " + channel + "\r\n")print 'joined channel'while (1): msg = sock.recv(1024) print msg if msg.find('PING') != -1: sock.send("PONG " + msg.split(" ")[1] + "\r\n")