My first Supybot plugin
Monday, August 7th, 2006Using the guide I linked to the other day, I was able to create my first Supybot plugin tonight. It was far easier than I had expected.
Including a ’supybot-plugin-create’ script was a really nice touch on the part of the developers. The script asked me a few questions and then generated the basic skeleton of a working plugin:
europa $ supybot-plugin-create
What should the name of the plugin be? DemoPlugin
Sometimes you'll want a callback to be threaded. If its
methods (command or regexp-based, either one) will take
a significant amount of time to run, you'll want to thread
them so they don't block the entire bot.
Does your plugin need to be threaded? [y/n] y
What is your real name, so I can fill in the copyright and
license appropriately? J. Mulligan
Do you wish to use Supybot's license for your plugin? [y/n] y
Your new plugin template is in the DemoPlugin directory.
After that, all that I really had to do was walk through the guide, add some docstrings, and write the functions for the commands I wanted to add.
The plugin I wrote is just a simple dice-roller that accepts dice/modifier combinations such as 2d6+1, but it really wouldn’t be any harder to write something much more complex. I’m really impressed with the Supybot plugin system. Very cool.
