I'm starting a new bot on IRC and I've finished the framework for it, so I decided to post it. It only has the IRC protocol's that I'm going to use, so some are excluded.

the variable 'x' will always be a channel except in the case of msg.
the variable 'y' will always be a nickname except in the case of msg.
the variable 'z' will always be a message.
the variable 'arjok' at the top is auto rejoin on kick. 1 means it will auto rejoin on a kick; any other number means it wont.

commands that you make should be put in the while loop as I have showed with pong(), autoReJoinOnKick(), and autoJoinOnInvite().

Everything was made and tested using Python 2.7

I appreciate any comments and feedback.

#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
arjok=1
irc = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
network = 'network.name.here'
irc.connect ( (network, 6667 ) )
irc.send('NICK nickname\r\n')
irc.send('USER <username> <hostname> <servername>: <realname>\r\n')
income=irc.recv (4096)
print income
def pong():
    if income.find('PING') != -1:
        irc.send('PONG ' + income.split()[1] + '\r\n')
def msg(x,z):
    irc.send ('PRIVMSG '+x +' :'+z +'\r\n')
def notice(y,z):
    irc.send('NOTICE '+x+' :'+z+'\r\n')
def join(x):
    irc.send('JOIN '+x+'\r\n')
def part(x):
    irc.send('PART '+x+'\r\n')
def whois(y):
    irc.send('WHOIS '+y+'\r\n')
def kick(x,y,z):
    irc.send('KICK '+x+' '+y+' '+z+'\r\n')
def ban(x,y):
    irc.send('MODE '+x+' +b '+y+'\r\n')
def kickban(x,y,z):
    kick(x,y,z,)
    ban(x,y)
def autoJoinOnInvite():
    if (income.find('INVITE') != -1):
        join(income.split()[3])
def autoReJoinOnKick(x):
    if ((income.find('KICK') != -1) and (arjok == 1)):
        join(x)
while True:
    income = irc.recv ( 4096 )
    pong()
    print income
    x=income.split()[2]
    autoReJoinOnKick(x)
    autoJoinOnInvite()