IRC Bot Problems

import socket

irc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
network = "irc.twitch.tv"
port = 6667
default_join = ["#channel_name"]

# twitch command functions
def what_is_game():  # under construction
    pass

def sellout(raw_message):
    message = ('long joke here')
    send_privmsg(raw_message.split('#')[1].split(" ")[0], message)

# general commands
def send_privmsg(location, message):
    irc.sendall("PRIVMSG #{0} :{1}\r\n".format(location, message))

def echo(raw_message):  # format = PRIVMSG target :message
    words_to_echo = raw_message.split(":")[2].split(" ")[1:]
    target = raw_message.split("#")[1].split(" ")[0]
    message = ''
    for word in words_to_echo:
        if word[-4:] != '\r\n':
            message += word + ' '
        else:
            message += word
    irc.send("PRIVMSG #{0} :{1}\r\n".format(target, message))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    irc.connect((network, port))
    print irc.recv(4096)
    irc.send("PASS {0}\r\n".format("oauth:codehere")) # format() was just to see if I was doing it wrong
    irc.send("USER TwitchName 0 * :Owner - Failfixer\r\n")
    irc.send("NICK TwitchName\r\n")
    for channel in default_join:
        irc.send("JOIN "+channel+"\r\n")
    while True:
        action = ''
        data = irc.recv(4096)
        print data #for debug

        if data.find('PING') != -1:
            irc.send("PONG "+data.split()[1]+"\r\n")

        if data.find("#") != -1:
            action = data.split("#")[0].split(" ")[1]

        if action != '':

            if action == 'PRIVMSG':
                command = ''
                if data.find(":!") != -1:
                    command = data.split(":")[2].split(" ")[0].strip("\r\n")
                    if command == "!say":
                        echo(data)
                    if command == "!sellout":
                        sellout(data)