codigo irc simples python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# encoding: utf-8
import platform
import socket
import sys

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf8")

##config
server = "ip"
channel = "#canal"
nick = "nick"
user = "usuario"
senduser = False
sendnick = False
sendpassword = False
password = "Senha"

irc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
print "\nConnecting to: " + server + ":"
irc.connect((server, 6667))

def sendmsg(msg):
    irc.send("PRIVMSG " + channel + " :" + msg + "\n")

try:
    while 1:
        text = irc.recv(2048)

        if len(text) > 0:
            print text
        else:
            continue

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

        if senduser == False:
            irc.send("USER " + user + " " + user + " " + user + " :" + user + "\n")
            senduser = True
            continue

        if senduser and sendnick == False:
            irc.send("NICK " + nick + "\n")
            sendnick = True
            continue

        if sendpassword == False:
            irc.send("NICKSERV IDENTIFY " + password + "\r\n")
            sendpassword = True
            continue

        if text.find("255 " + nick) != -1:
            global br
            irc.send("JOIN " + channel + "\n")

        ##Comandos
        if text.find("!oi") != -1:
            sendmsg("ola")

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    sys.exit()