I would do something like this:
body = Message.Body
if body.startswith('!'):
parts = body.split() # ['!ping', 'google.com']
command = parts[0][1:] # 'ping'
result = commands[command](*parts[1:]) # Calls `ping` with 'google.com'
Message.Chat.SendMessage(result) # Prints out the resulting string
Now, you can define simple functions:
def ping(url):
if os.system("ping " + url) == 0:
return 'Online!'
else:
return 'Offline!'
And add them to a commands dictionary:
commands = {
'ping': ping
}
os.system()
is insecure if you're expecting arbitrary user input, so I'd use subprocess.Popen
instead (or just try connecting to the website with just Python).