Now logging to stdout.

lolbot.py

@@ -7,13 +7,16 @@
 
 """
 Useful bot for folks stuck behind censor walls at work
+Logs a channel and collects URLs for later.
 """
 
 import sys, string, random, time
 from ircbot import SingleServerIRCBot
 from irclib import nm_to_n, nm_to_h, irc_lower
 import botcommon
-import time
+import os
+
+from datetime import datetime
 from mechanize import Browser
 
 # Exclamations - wrong input
@@ -31,6 +34,8 @@ ponderings = [
     "Hi, can I have a medium lamb roast, with just potatoes.",
     "Can I slurp on your Big Cock?",
     "Your Mum likes it two in the pink one in the stink.",
+    "Quentin Tarantino is so awesome I want to have his babies.",
+    "No it's a week night 8pm is past my bedtime.",
 ]
 
 class LolBot(SingleServerIRCBot):
@@ -40,7 +45,6 @@ class LolBot(SingleServerIRCBot):
     self.channel = channel
     self.nickname = nickname
     self.urls = {}
-    self.logfile = open('/tmp/lolbot.log', 'a')
 
     self.helptext = "Adds URLs to a list. Commands: list - prints a bunch of URLs; clear - clears the list; lol - say something funny; <url> - adds the URL to the list; help - this message."
 
@@ -54,11 +58,18 @@ class LolBot(SingleServerIRCBot):
       br.open(url)
       title = br.title()
     except Exception as ex:
-      print ex
       title = ''
     self.urls[url] = title
     return title
 
+  def now(self):
+    return datetime.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
+
+  def log_event(self, event):
+    nick = nm_to_n(event.source())
+    text = event.arguments()[0]
+    print "(%s) %s: %s" % (self.now(), nick, text)
+
   def on_nicknameinuse(self, connection, event):
     self.nickname = connection.get_nickname() + "_"
     connection.nick(self.nickname)
@@ -75,7 +86,7 @@ class LolBot(SingleServerIRCBot):
     "Deal with a public message in a channel."
 
     # log it
-    self.logfile.write("%s\n" % event.arguments()[0])
+    self.log_event(event)
 
     from_nick = nm_to_n(event.source())
     args = string.split(event.arguments()[0], ":", 1)
@@ -92,6 +103,7 @@ class LolBot(SingleServerIRCBot):
   def say_public(self, text):
     "Print TEXT into public channel, for all to see."
     self.queue.send(text, self.channel)
+    print "(%s) %s: %s" % (self.now(), self.nickname, text)
 
   def say_private(self, nick, text):
     "Send private message of TEXT to NICK."
@@ -105,7 +117,7 @@ class LolBot(SingleServerIRCBot):
       self.say_public(text)
 
   def ponder(self):
-    "Return a random string indicating what Pinky's pondering."
+    "Return a random pondering."
     return random.choice(ponderings)
 
   def exclaim(self):
@@ -119,15 +131,10 @@ class LolBot(SingleServerIRCBot):
     """
 
     if event.eventtype() == "pubmsg":
-      # self.reply() sees 'from_private = None' and sends to public channel.
       target = None
     else:
-      # assume that from_private comes from a 'privmsg' event.
       target = from_private.strip()
 
-    # Be forgiving about capitalization and whitespace.
-    #cmd = cmd.replace(" ", "").lower()
-
     if cmd == 'help':
       self.reply(self.helptext, target)