def main():
server = settings.SERVER
port = settings.PORT
channel = settings.CHANNEL
nickname = settings.NICKNAME
lichessmate = lichess.LichessBot()
# LenientDecodingBuffer attempts UTF-8 but falls back to latin-1 to avoid UnicodeDecoreError in all cases.
irc.client.ServerConnection.buffer_class = buffer.LenientDecodingLineBuffer
ircbot = IRCBot(channel, nickname, server, port, lichessmate, settings)
try:
# Start a new thread for running Lichess, send the ircbot instance to it.
_thread.start_new_thread(run_lichess, (lichessmate, ircbot))
except _thread.error:
print_error('Error: Unable to start thread.')
ircbot.start()
