twitch bot for twitch plays Car on a Stick

coasbot.py

# Python 3.6+
# Reqired Modules:
import socket
import time
import random
import re
import pynput

# Code:

# Setup
keyboard = pynput.keyboard.Controller()
keys = pynput.keyboard.Key

CHAT_MSG = re.compile(r"^:\w+!\w+@\w+\.tmi\.twitch\.tv PRIVMSG #\w+ :")
s = socket.socket()
unicode = dict.fromkeys(range(0x10000, sys.maxunicode + 1), 0xfffd)

channel = "<channel>"
nick = "<botname>"
token = "<bot oauth>"

s.connect(('irc.chat.twitch.tv', 6667))
s.send(bytes("PASS " + token.lower() + "\r\n", "UTF-8")) # joins twitch chat
s.send(bytes("NICK " + nick.lower() + "\r\n", "UTF-8"))
s.send(bytes("JOIN #" + channel.lower() +"\r\n", "UTF-8"))

# Functions
def chat(message):# Function for sending a message to the Twitch Chat
    s.send(bytes(str(r"PRIVMSG #" + channel + r" :"  + message + r"\r\n", "UTF-8")))

def press(key):
    keyboard.press(key)
    time.sleep(0.1)
    keyboard.release(key)

def keyDown(key):
    keyboard.press(key)

def keyUp(key):
    keyboard.release(key)

def p(text):
    print(text)

speed = 2

# Main Loop
while True:
    response = s.recv(1027).decode("utf-8")
    if response == "PING :tmi.twitch.tv\r\n":
        s.send("PONG :tmi.twitch.tv\r\n".encode("utf-8"))
    else:
        username = re.search(r"\w+", response).group(0)
        message = CHAT_MSG.sub("", response)
        msg = message.lower().split('\r\n')[0]

        p(channel + '> ' + username + ': ' + message)

        args = msg.split(' ')
        cmd = args[0]

        try:
            args[1]
        except IndexError:
            args.append(None)

        if msg.startswith('!changetheme'):
            if args[1] in ['q', 'w', 'e', 'r', 't', 'y', 'u', 'i', 'o', 'p', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']:
                press(args[1])
            elif args[1] == 'randomcolor':
                press(str(random.randint(0,9)))
            elif args[1] == 'randomroad':
                press(str(random.choice(['q', 'w', 'e', 'r', 't', 'y', 'u', 'i', 'o', 'p'])))
            else:
                press(keys.space)
        
        elif msg.startswith('!left'):
            press(keys.left)
        
        elif msg.startswith('!right'):
            press(keys.right)

        elif msg.startswith('!faster'):
            if speed == 1:
                keyUp(keys.down)
                speed = 2
            elif speed == 2:
                keyDown(keys.up)
                speed = 3

        elif msg.startswith('!slower'):
            if speed == 3:
                keyUp(keys.up)
                speed = 2
            elif speed == 2:
                keyDown(keys.down)
                speed = 1