Mass highlighting script for Weechat

masshighlight.py

import weechat
from time import sleep
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-

weechat.register("masshighlight", "HarHar", "1.0", "GPL3", "fgt", "", "")
hook = weechat.hook_command('mhilight', 'Mass Highlight', "", "", "msg", "mh", "")
weechat.prnt("", "Mass highlighting lock and loaded")

def mh(data, buffer, args):
        buffer = weechat.current_buffer()
        nicks = weechat.infolist_get('nicklist', buffer, '')
        _nicks = []
        while weechat.infolist_next(nicks):
                n = weechat.infolist_string(nicks, 'name')
                if (n == 'root') or (n.find('00') == 0): continue
                _nicks.append(n)
        weechat.infolist_free(nicks)
        splitin = 340
        whole = ' '.join(_nicks)
        i = 0
        while i < len(whole):
                weechat.command(buffer, whole[i:i+splitin])
                i += splitin
                sleep(1)

        return weechat.WEECHAT_RC_OK