Python : Check if IRC connection is lost (PING PONG?)

Question

So my question is, how would i get my bot to listen if there is a PING and if there\'s no ping in an interval of a minute, it will react as though the connection has been lo

Answer 1

You should not use data.find('PING') because it also finds "PING" in other messages. And then you send an incorrect PONG...

Instead try something like that:

if data[0:4] == "PING":
    irc.send("PONG " + data.split()[1] + "\n")