Thanks to maintainers working on projects like irc, you can use Tidelift to give your teams access to a continuously curated stream of validated data about vetted components they need to make intelligent decisions, faster.
You can feel confident bringing irc into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of irc are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.
IRC is a Python library that provides a low-level implementation of the IRC protocol for Python. It provides an event-driven IRC client framework. It has a fairly thorough support for the basic IRC protocol, CTCP, and DCC connections. Learn more here.
IRC is available via the PyPI package manager.
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