Python | How to restrict command in the IRC bot?

Question

How to restrict command in the IRC bot written in Python?

For example I have:

data. = irc.recv(2048)

if data.find("^cmd",7) != -1:
    irc.send('PRIVMSG ' + channel + ' :' + 'do_something' + '\r\n')

But if any user write bla bla ^cmdblabla it will works too. I don't want it so how may I restrict it? Tried with len() but there is no chance to do it by this way. Seems that regexp also will not help for this.

Answer 1

You need to write a tuple with the arguments allowed. For example:

commands = ("some_command", "other_command", "this_continues")

Then just:

if not command in commands:
    print("Unrecognized command.")

You have to parse the data before to get the command. Maybe like this:

command = data[:data.find(" ")]
# And here the code above

Hope it helps.