PocketChat: A Lightweight Python-Based IRC Client

I created the PocketChat IRC client a few years ago as a fun project to learn more about python, Tkinter, and the IRC protocol. Its a little rough in some areas as it was one of my first serious project using python. One of the goals of the project was to create a mostly complete client in as few lines as possible, making it useful for lower powered devices. I originally wrote the client for the PocketChip handheld Linux computer made by the company NextThingCo, but it can be used on any Linux, Windows, or Mac computer.

COMMANDS:

• Join a channel: /join #channel

• Leave a channel: /leave in the window of the channel you want to leave

• Send a pm: /msg user message

• Change you nick: /nick newname

• Close the client: /quit

• Auto join channels by adding them to the box seperated by commas no spaces e.g.(#raspberrypi, #arduino, ##linux)

Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python
sudo apt-get install python3-tk

Run the program:

python3 PocketChatIRC.py