Python class objects as plugins?

Hi. I'm hacking up an irc bot in python using Joel Rosdahl's irclib. I want to be able to add plugins to my bot, without having to restart it. In specific, I would have a directory called "plugins". Into this, I would place scripts that the bot could load as plugins, whenever I give it the instru

python scripting for eggdrop?

Can it be done? I hate tcl. Is there someway I could parse all irc events so they can be handled by python's irclib? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list