def __init__(self): ' Load up some configs ' conf = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() conf.readfp(open('CONFIG')) config = dict(conf.items('Main')) # initialise the parent object IRCBot.__init__(self, config['ip'], int(config['port']), config['nick'], config['chan'], config['pass']) # Some additional parameters self.pingcounter = 0 self.prepends = [] for x in [a[1] for a in conf.items('Prepends')]: self.prepends.append(x + ' ') self.prepends.append('') self.prepends.append('') self.PING = int(config['pings'])