I'm trying to make a simple AIM bot that, in addition to responding when
I talk to it, can also send me a message on its own initiative. My code
is based on SkippyTalkBot [1], but I confess that I don't understand it
very well, and though I've been crawling the Twisted documentation for a
few
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
So I'm at a loss as to how to add an "idle" function that will allow
my bot to periodically see whether it has something new to say to the
user.
While this sometimes makes sense, it's usually *not* the approach you want
to take. You're describing a solution which i
Christopher Armstrong wrote:
Just because you have a number of sources doesn't mean you
intrinsically can't use them in an efficient, event-oriented manner.
No, but when these "sources" as you call them are external data sources
that I have to periodically check (have to -- there is no way to
