Send NOTICE message to IRC server

announce.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import socket
import sys
from datetime import datetime

try:
    import json
except:
    import simplejson as json

print len(sys.argv)

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    sys.exit(0)

with open(sys.argv[1]) as payload:
    announcements = json.load(payload)


notices = []
for announce in announcements:
    notices.append('NOTICE {0} :{1} -- {2}\r\n'.format(announce['channel'], announce['nicks'], announce['message']))

network = 'porky.str.redhat.com'
port = 6667
irc = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
irc.connect ( ( network, port ) )
print irc.recv ( 4096 )
irc.send ( 'NICK nagbot\r\n' )
irc.send ( 'USER nagbot nagbot nagbot :Python IRC\r\n' )
irc.send ( 'JOIN #jhonce\r\n' )

for notice in notices:
    print notice
    irc.send(notice)