Official IRC channel for Python?

[js]

Howdy,

I was wondering if there's official IRC channel for Python.
I tried #python irc.freenode.net and irc.openproject.net with no luck.

Could you please give me some suggestions?

 

[Paul Rubin]

I tried #python irc.freenode.net

That has always worked for me.

 

[js]

Really? maybe I'm been blocked from it...
thanks.

 

[Steve Holden]

Really? maybe I'm been blocked from it...
thanks.

Currently 479 users. Have you been blocked from many channels?

regards
Steve

 

[js]

No. Actually, i'm very new to IRC.

Currently 479 users. Have you been blocked from many channels?

regards
Steve

 

[Manu Hack]

Really? maybe I'm been blocked from it...
thanks.

Maybe you need your nick name to be recognized. You need to register
your nickname somewhere.

Manu

 

[Paul Rubin]

Maybe you need your nick name to be recognized. You need to register
your nickname somewhere.

On freenode, you need to register your nick in order to send private
messages, but you can join a channel with an unregistered nick. If
the nick is registered to someone else, you get a message saying to
identify (which in this situation actually means change nicks, since
you presumably don't have the password to identify as the other
person).

Manu, what happens when you try to join? What happens if you change
nicks? Can you connect to freenode at all? Can you join other
channels?

 

[Manu Hack]

On freenode, you need to register your nick in order to send private
messages, but you can join a channel with an unregistered nick. If
the nick is registered to someone else, you get a message saying to
identify (which in this situation actually means change nicks, since
you presumably don't have the password to identify as the other
person).

Manu, what happens when you try to join? What happens if you change
nicks? Can you connect to freenode at all? Can you join other
channels?
--

For most of the channels there is not problem joining. Only the
python channel I need to use message nickserv to identify in order to
join. I'm not very into the irc thing so after the first time I
register the nickname and then I don't seem to remember where I
registered.

LIke if I run /join python in irssi it gives #python You need to be
identified to join that channel

so I need to run /msg nickserv identify my_password

and then I can join #python by running /join python.

Manu

 

[Paul Rudin]

On freenode, you need to register your nick in order to send private
messages, but you can join a channel with an unregistered nick. If
the nick is registered to someone else, you get a message saying to
identify (which in this situation actually means change nicks, since
you presumably don't have the password to identify as the other
person).

You can't join #python on freenode without identifying with nickserv
first.

 

[Paul Rubin]

You can't join #python on freenode without identifying with nickserv
first.

Oh, interesting and annoying. I don't know if I've noticed that before.

 

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Currently 479 users.

I'd be nice if we could achieve some sort of network effect in
(e-mail address removed). I don't want to start a Jabber v. IRC
debate here; I simply prefer it and maybe others do so, too.

Tschö,
Torsten.

 

[Steve Holden]

Hallöchen!



I'd be nice if we could achieve some sort of network effect in
(e-mail address removed). I don't want to start a Jabber v. IRC
debate here; I simply prefer it and maybe others do so, too.

The best way to achieve this may be to challenge the Twisted guys who
habitually hang out on Python to do it in under ten lines

regards
Steve

 

[js]

You can't join #python on freenode without identifying with nickserv

first.

Why is that?
I can join #perl, #php, #ruby, #mysql, #postgres without registration.
What advantage does it have? and the advantage really worth?

If #python were the developer's room, I'd say it's reasonable,
but that's not the case here.

 

[Guilherme Polo]

Why is that?
I can join #perl, #php, #ruby, #mysql, #postgres without registration.
What advantage does it have? and the advantage really worth?

The direct benefit is a probability of having less spam, and things
like that. Registering a nickname is pretty easy and don't bring you
problems, so I don't know why you wouldn't want to register one. The
benefit of registering your nickname is that other people won't be
able to use it to do something not so cool.

If #python were the developer's room, I'd say it's reasonable,
but that's not the case here.

Well, a lot of developers hang out there. Some are specifically python
developers and others works in other projects.

There is a rule of NO LOL there too, by the way. It is intended to be
a good channel for answering questions and getting good answers.

 

[Paul Rubin]

The direct benefit is a probability of having less spam, and things
like that.

I don't remember ever seeing irc spam on freenode. I see it once in a
while on undernet. This is a non-problem.

 

[Guilherme Polo]

I don't remember ever seeing irc spam on freenode. I see it once in a
while on undernet. This is a non-problem.

I'm not just guessing, I know it happens and saw it happenning (even
on python that requires registration).

 

[js]

I saw bad guys on IRC a few days ago, but it was not a problem
because Ignore user function in IRC client makes his/her messages invisible.

BTW,who's the maintainer of the channel?