Spartan IRC Bot in Python

gistfile1.txt

import socket #imports module allowing connection to IRC
import threading #imports module allowing timing functions

#sets variables for connection to twitch chat
bot_owner = 'SpartacurseTV'
nick = 'phaseplant'
channel = '#SpartacurseTV'
server = 'irc.twitch.tv'
password = '*snip*'

queue = 0 #sets variable for anti-spam queue functionality

irc = socket.socket( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
irc.connect((server, 6667)) #connects to the server

#sends variables for connection to twitch chat
irc.send('PASS ' + password + '\r\n')
irc.send('NICK ' + nick + '\r\n')
irc.send('USER ' + nick + ' 0 * :' + bot_owner + '\r\n')
irc.send('JOIN ' + channel + '\r\n') 


  
def irc_split(line):
    tags = sender = None

    if line[0] == "@":
        tags, line = line.split(" ", 1)
    
    if line[0] == ":":
        sender, line = line.split(" ", 1)
    
    if " :" in line:
        line, trailing = line.split(" :", 1)
        line = line.split(" ")
        line.append(trailing)
    else:
        line = line.split(" ")
 
    cmd = line.pop(0).upper()
    
    return tags, sender, cmd, line
 
while True:
    data = irc.recv(4096) #gets output from IRC server
    print("I got %r" % data)
 
    tags, sender, cmd, args = irc_split(data)
    print(" - sender is %r" % sender)
    print(" - command is %r" % cmd)
    print(" - parameters are %r" % args)
 
    nick = sender.split("!")[0] if sender else None
    
    if cmd == "PING":
        irc.send("PONG %s\r\n" % args.join(" "))
    elif cmd == "PRIVMSG":
        channel, text = args
        reply = "oh hey %s" % nick
        irc.send("PRIVMSG %s :%s\r\n" % (channel, reply))