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This is really cool (though screenshots might help the curious). One little thing however:

elif cmd.startswith("/NICK "): config.nick=cmd[6:].strip()

You shouldn't actually change your nick in the client until you receive a positive NICK response from the server - for example what if you change your nick to an already existing one, and it's denied?

This could perhaps go in doResponse. Also, I don't see that you handle PING/PONG - which are required if you're ever idle more than 90-120 seconds on most servers.

Very cool in such a short space however!

Aaron, this client certainly is far from being robust just yet.  What I find exciting, however, is yesterday morning I knew literally nothing about the protocol IRC uses and yet I was able to pull this together.  The hardest thing was handling the threading - the window would freeze up until I introduced wxPostEvent.

PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:. python wxirc.py
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py", line 414, in __bootstrap
  self.run()
  File "wxirc.py", line 24, in run
  handle.settimeout(1.0)
AttributeError: '_socket.socket' object has no attribute 'settimeout'

Segmentation fault

settimeout is new in Python 2.3

If you want a solution that works with Python 2.2, take a look at timeoutsocket.

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