Programming Jabber

Dissecting the keyassist Script

Taking keyassist step by step, the first section is probably familiar if you’ve seen the previous Python-based scripts in Section 8.1 and Section 8.3, both in Chapter 8.

import jabber
from string import split, join, find
import sys

Here, all of the functions and libraries that we’ll need are brought in. We’ll use the find function from the string library to help with the keyword searching.

Next, we declare the dictionary. This will hold a list of the words that the script will look for, as defined by each person, as shown in Example 9-3.

keywords = {}