Makes Minecraft color codes into mIRC color codes

MCtoIRC.py

#coding=utf-8
__author__ = 'ron975'

def ingame_toIRC(string):
    string = string.decode("utf-8")
    #Black to Black
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"0", u"\u0003"+"01")
    #Ingame Dark Blue to IRC Blue
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"1",u"\u0003"+"02")
    #Ingame Dark Green to IRC Dark Green
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"2",u"\u0003"+"03")
    #Ingame Dark Aqua to IRC Teal
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"3",u"\u0003"+"10")
    #Ingame Dark Red to IRC Maroon
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"4",u"\u0003"+"05")
    #Ingame Purple to IRC Purple
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"5",u"\u0003"+"06")
    #Ingame Gold to IRC Orange
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"6",u"\u0003"+"07")
    #Ingame Gray to IRC LightGray
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"7",u"\u0003"+"15")
    #Ingame DarkGray to IRC Gray
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"8",u"\u0003"+"14")
    #Ingame Blue to IRC Lightblue
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"9",u"\u0003"+"12")
    #Ingame Green to IRC LightGreen
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"a",u"\u0003"+"09")
    #Ingame Aqua to IRC Cyan
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"b",u"\u0003"+"11")
    #Ingame Red to IRC Red
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"c",u"\u0003"+"04")
    #Ingame light purple to IRC light purple
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"d",u"\u0003"+"13")
    #Ingame yellow to IRC yello
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"e",u"\u0003"+"08")
    #Ingame White to IRC White
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"f",u"\u0003"+"00")
    #Ingame Bold to IRC Bold
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"l",u"\u0002")
    #Ingame Strikethrough to nothing
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"m",'')
    #Ingame Underline to IRC underline
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"n",u"\u001F")
    #Ingame ital to IRC ital
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"o",u"\u0016")
    #Ingame garbled to nothing
    string = string.replace(u"\u00A7"+"k","")

    newstr = string
    return newstr


print ingame_toIRC("§lHello World")