Testing

If you wish to test your bot offline, you can use the TestCase class:

Please note: that the nickname used for the bot while testing is hardcoded as zIRC-test

from zirc.test import TestCase

class botTest(TestCase):
    def on_privmsg(self, event):
        self.reply(event, "Hi!")

bot = botTest()
log = """:user!~user@user/user PRIVMSG #zirc :Hey!
:user2!~user@user/user2 PRIVMSG #zirc :How are you?
:user3!~user@user/user3 PRIVMSG zIRC-test :Hello there!"""
bot.start(log)

Output:

Starting...
Parsed line ':user!~user@user/user PRIVMSG #zirc :Hey!'
Attempting to run on_privmsg
RESPONSE: 'PRIVMSG #zirc :Hi!'
Parsed line ':user2!~user@user/user2 PRIVMSG #zirc :How are you?'
Attempting to run on_privmsg
RESPONSE: 'PRIVMSG #zirc :Hi!'
Parsed line ':user3!~user@user/user3 PRIVMSG zIRC-test :Hello there!'
Attempting to run on_privmsg
RESPONSE: 'PRIVMSG user3 :Hi!'
Done!