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+*e4web*
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+Yet another modular Python IRC bot
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+Requires irclib (http://python-irclib.sourceforge.net/) and uses SourceLib.SourceQuery (https://github.com/frostschutz/SourceLib)
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+Tested on Python 2.6
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