Truth, Computing and Fail

I have decided to move some of my personal projects to Google Code so that it’d give me some impetus and make me get off my lazy ass and actually put some real effort into the things I like.

Er, not really. It’s more of a selfish decision. Right now I want other people to read and criticize my code so that I’d know where I’m going wrong and correct myself. Nothing’s more dangerous than complacency.

As a starter, I have uploaded the tiny mpd now playing plugin I wrote for xchat about an year ago when I was learning socket programming in python. Showing the current playing track was too easy. Right now I want it to become more like an interface to mpd that provides basic controls sitting in the comfort of xchat.

I named the project mpd-xchat

PS: Just after I had uploaded the code, I found a project by the name of xchat-mpd

I hope to add one more project in the next few days

It is 3 in the morning. Don’t expect me to blabber much. Windows users, please fuck off at this point. Just give the file a py extension and move it to ~/.xchat2 so that it loads automatically at startup. Use /show to tell everyone in the channel you are playing [insert an emo band name here] and proceed to cut your wrist or let everyone know you are a real emo with the legwarmers and all. OK ENOUGH.

import socket,re,xchat

__module_name__ = "mpd-np"
__module_version__ = "0.1"
__module_description__ = "mpd now playing"

def playing(word, word_eol, userdata):
	mpd=socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
	host='127.0.0.1'
	port=6600
	mpd.connect((host,port))
        #welcome msg could be used to extract mpd version information
	welcome=mpd.recv(1024)
	mpd.send('currentsong\r\n')
        #get all the info about current track being played
	data=mpd.recv(4096)
	#I wont be explaining any REs
	artist=re.findall(r'Artist[:]\s[\S ]+',data)[0].split(':')[1]
	title=re.findall(r'Title[:]\s[\S ]+',data)[0].split(':')[1]
	msg='Now playing:'+artist+'-'+title
	xchat.command('me '+msg)
	data=""
	mpd.close()
	return xchat.EAT_ALL
#hooks into the show xchat command
xchat.hook_command("show",playing)

Reports of idiotic behavior go into the comments.