Programming Jabber

Taking the cvsmsg-s Script Step by Step

Now it’s time to examine the script step by step. We’ll concentrate mostly on the additions to the original cvsmsg script.

We bring in a string function that we’ll be needing later in the script to chop up JIDs into their component parts (username, hostname, and resource):

import jabber
import sys
from string import split

Server   = 'gnu.pipetree.com'
Username = 'cvsmsg'
Password = 'secret'
Resource = 'cvsmsg'

cvsuser  = sys.argv[1]
message  = ''