python and python-irclib problem

[LostSon]

I am starting to learn python and thought this would be an interersting project to do I have entered this and save it as irctest.py

import irclib


network = 'irc.wirednetwork.org'
port = 6667 # Default Port
channel = '#thevault'
nick = 'vaultbot'
name = 'vaultbot'

irc = irclib.IRC() # Creates the IRC object
server = irc.server() # Creates the Server object
server.connect ( network, port, nick, ircname = name ) # Connects
server.join ( channel ) # Joins the selected channel

irc.process_forever() # Take a guess? A loop. :-)

But nothing seems to happen and when i hit ctr-c to quit i get this

python irctest.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "irctest.py", line 15, in <module>
    irc.process_forever() # Take a guess? A loop. :-)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/irclib.py", line 229, in process_forever
    self.process_once(timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/irclib.py", line 213, in process_once
    (i, o, e) = select.select(sockets, [], [], timeout)
KeyboardInterrupt

I found several tutorials using this code and in different ways and have tried several of them but they dont work. Am i screwing up syntax somewhere possibly ? Any ideas ? Thanks

[dshaw256]

What is it supposed to be doing? Looks like it went through all your connect code and is now in your process forever loop... So maybe there's nothing for it to process?

I went Googling and found a thread on this very subject. You might find it interesting.

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread689988.html

[LostSon]

ok I have figured out it is trying to join the channel too fast and this is the only network it is havin problems with. So is there a way to put some kind of delay in there say 30 seconds or so before it tries to join the channel ?

[rantanplan]

I think there is a wait or sleep function. Google it in the module documentation online at the python site.