How to perform a whois query?

[jaraco]

How to perform a whois on a client?

For example:

When using singleserverircbot as the base class

on_pubmsg(self, c, e):
   user = nm_to_n(e.source())
   c.whois(user)

returns nothing

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/jaraco/irc/issue/10
• Originally reported by: unconscious
• Originally created at: 2012-12-19T09:45:00.963

[jaraco]

When you call c.whois, a whois is a message sent to the server. It's an asynchronous operation for which the response may or may not come later. I've never used this feature before, but I suspect to catch the response, you need to define 'on_whois(self, c, e)' and parse out the message. If that doesn't work, then you'll have to dig into the IRC RFC and find out what message is sent in response to a whois query, and define 'on_'.

Good luck, and please report back what you find.

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Original comment by: Jason R. Coombs

[jaraco]

Its cool. You can close this.

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Original comment by: unconscious

[jaraco]

Ill be sending you some pull requests with enhancements btw. :)

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Original comment by: unconscious

[jaraco]

Not a bug, but a question. Glad to help, though.

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Original comment by: Jason R. Coombs