Simple IRC Logging Bot in Python

This is a simple IRC chats logging bot. ALl it does is to connect to an IRC Channel, and log the conversations in real time, in a raw manner. The code presented here is just a proof of concept. For actual code, please visit http://code.google.com/p/pikudotbot/.

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
# A simple IRC Bot, that logs conversation in an IRC Channel
#
# (C) 2008, Pranav Prakash
#
# Email: pranny@gmail.com
#
#
#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#    along with this program.  If not, see .
"""

import sys, string, socket

class Bot(object):
 "A Simple Bot class"
 
 """This is the bot class, and the actual bots will be instances of
 this class"""
 
 def __init__(self, HOST, PORT, NICK, REALNAME, IDENTITY):
  self.host = HOST
  self.port = PORT
  self.nick = NICK
  self.realname = REALNAME
  self.identity = IDENTITY
  self.connected = 0 # disconnected by default
  self.sock = socket.socket()
  self.join = 0
 
 def connect(self, HOST = 'irc.freenode.net', PORT = 6667):
  loop = 1
  if self.connected == 1:
   print "Disconnecting from %s:%s" %(self.host, self.port)
   self.connected = 0
   self.host = HOST
   self.port = PORT
   self.sock.close()
  else:
   print "Connecting to %s:%s" %(self.host, self.port)
   self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
   self.sock.send('NICK ' + self.nick + '\n')
   self.sock.send('USER ' + self.identity + ' ' + self.host + ' blah :' + self.realname+'\n')
   while loop == 1:
    t = self.sock.recv(512)
    print t
    if t.find('PRIVMSG') != -1:
     self.join =  1  # ready to Join a channel
     return
    if len(t) < 1:
     loop = 0
     self.join = 0    # not ready to join a channel   
   
 def joinChannel(self, CHANNEL):
  self.channel = CHANNEL
  loop = 1
  print self.join
  if self.join == 1:
   self.sock.send('JOIN '+self.channel+'\n')
   while loop ==1:
    t = self.sock.recv(512)
    print t
    if t.find('privmsg') != -1 or t.find('PRIVMSG') != -1:
     logIt(t)
   
  else:
   print "Not ready to join"

 def disconnect(self):
  if self.connected == 1:
   self.sock.close()

def logIt(text):
 f = open('logfile','a')
 f.write(text)
 f.close()
  
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
 piku = Bot('irc.freenode.net', 6667, 'piku_b02', 'piku_b02', 'piku_b02')
 piku.connect()
 piku.joinChannel('#orkut_linux')