X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/z_archive/twitter.git/blobdiff_plain/c8d451e84b52bff57d38c9c6bcfcb4ab21281db6..b0dedfc018d4a0ecb9defa60969fb472e188a990:/twitter/ircbot.py

diff --git a/twitter/ircbot.py b/twitter/ircbot.py
index fb14c11..a10a5f1 100644
--- a/twitter/ircbot.py
+++ b/twitter/ircbot.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ password: <twitter_account_password>
   If no config file is given "twitterbot.ini" will be used by default.
 """
 
-BOT_VERSION = "TwitterBot 0.5.1 (http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter)"
+BOT_VERSION = "TwitterBot 1.0 (http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter)"
 
 IRC_BOLD = chr(0x02)
 IRC_ITALIC = chr(0x16)
@@ -241,24 +241,24 @@ def load_config(filename):
     cp.read((filename,))
     
     # attempt to read these properties-- they are required
-    self.config.get('twitter', 'email'),
-    self.config.get('twitter', 'password')
-    self.config.get('irc', 'server')
-    self.config.getint('irc', 'port')
-    self.config.get('irc', 'nick')
+    cp.get('twitter', 'email'),
+    cp.get('twitter', 'password')
+    cp.get('irc', 'server')
+    cp.getint('irc', 'port')
+    cp.get('irc', 'nick')
+    cp.get('irc', 'channel')
 
     return cp
 
-
-# Howdy, hacker!! You've found the secret Twitter business model!!
-#
-# 1. provide awesome status-update service
-# 2. buy a lot of new hardware to keep it running
-# 3. ???
-# 4. profit!
+# So there was a joke here about the twitter business model
+# but I got rid of it. Not because I want this codebase to
+# be "professional" in any way, but because someone forked
+# this and deleted the comment because they couldn't take
+# a joke. Hi guy!
 #
-# I'm just kidding... :3
-
+# Fact: The number one use of Google Code is to look for that
+# comment in the Linux kernel that goes "FUCK me gently with
+# a chainsaw." Pretty sure Linus himself wrote it.
 
 def main():
     configFilename = "twitterbot.ini"
@@ -269,10 +269,11 @@ def main():
         if not os.path.exists(configFilename):
             raise Exception()
         load_config(configFilename)
-    except:
+    except Exception, e:
         print >> sys.stderr, "Error while loading ini file %s" %(
             configFilename)
-        print __doc__
+        print >> sys.stderr, e
+        print >> sys.stderr, __doc__
         sys.exit(1)
 
     bot = TwitterBot(configFilename)