Question

Intro

I’ve been tinkering with Twisted for the past few days, having picked up python less than a month ago. My first inclination was to play with something I know and use every day, IRC. I’ve gotten a basic IRC connection up and running thanks to the ircLogBot.py example.

Question

I want to have some arbitrary code that runs whenever an IRC event (PRIVMSG/CTCP/JOIN/PART) is received, and for purposes of debugging I’d like to be able to make changes to that piece of code and then reload it without shutting down the whole script and reconnecting to the IRC server.

Final Notes

It doesn’t have to be a solution that incorporates Twisted, as I do not fully understand it yet. Though I assume this is the sort of thing that twisted, being an event-driven framework, is likely designed to do well.

Answer 1

Schedule a recurring event (every few seconds) to reload your module being debugged. Use the builtin reload() function for this purpose.

You might want to wrap it in a try/except to handle the case where you introduce an error in the module being debugged. That will keep the server alive in the face of errors 🙂