indicate recursion better by adding _recursing to Event

for simplicity's sake, this was added to the extlib/irclib rather
than subclassing. because i'm lazy. anyway, check that flag instead
of doing the event._target = None hack, since that hack was breaking
Markov.

for an unrelated reason (what to learn and not learn), update Markov

also remove an unused method that was getting in my way while coding this

DrBotIRC.py

@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ class DrBotIRC(irclib.IRC):
         h = self.handlers
         replies = []
 
-        event._target = None
         for handler in h.get("all_events", []) + h.get(event.eventtype(), []):
             ret = handler[1](connection, event)
             if ret:
@@ -237,20 +236,6 @@ class DrBotIRC(irclib.IRC):
         # if we got here, there are no matching aliases, so return what we got
         return event
 
-    def reply(self, connection, event, replystr, stop_responding=False):
-        """Reply over IRC to replypath or return a string with the reply."""
-
-        replypath = event.target()
-        if replystr is not None:
-            if replypath is None:
-                return replystr
-            else:
-                replies = replystr.split('\n')
-                for reply in replies:
-                    connection.privmsg(replypath, reply)
-                if stop_responding:
-                    return "NO MORE"
-
     def try_recursion(self, connection, event):
         """Scan message for subcommands to execute and use as part of this command.
 
@@ -277,6 +262,8 @@ class DrBotIRC(irclib.IRC):
                 # copy the event and see if IT has recursion to do
                 newevent = copy.deepcopy(event)
                 newevent.arguments()[0] = subcmd
+                newevent._recursing = True
+
                 self.try_recursion(connection, newevent)
 
                 # recursion over, check for aliases

Module.py

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class Module(object):
             replypath = irclib.nm_to_n(event.source())
 
         if replystr is not None:
-            if replypath is None:
+            if event._recursing:
                 return replystr
             else:
                 replies = replystr.split('\n')

extlib/irclib.py

@@ -1132,6 +1132,7 @@ class Event:
         self._eventtype = eventtype
         self._source = source
         self._target = target
+        self._recursing = False
         if arguments:
             self._arguments = arguments
         else:

modules/Markov.py

@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ class Markov(Module):
                 db.commit()
                 db.close()
                 self.db_register_module_version(self.__class__.__name__, version)
-
-                self._learn_line('','')
             except sqlite3.Error as e:
                 db.rollback()
                 db.close()
@@ -171,7 +169,7 @@ class Markov(Module):
         if self.learnre.search(what) or self.replyre.search(what):
             return
 
-        self._learn_line(what, target)
+        self._learn_line(what, target, event)
 
     def do(self, connection, event, nick, userhost, what, admin_unlocked):
         """Handle commands and inputs."""
@@ -207,7 +205,7 @@ class Markov(Module):
         match = self.learnre.search(what)
         if match:
             line = match.group(1)
-            self._learn_line(line, target)
+            self._learn_line(line, target, event)
 
             # return what was learned, for weird chaining purposes
             return line
@@ -288,7 +286,7 @@ class Markov(Module):
                         self.sendmsg(self.connection, t['target'],
                           'shutting up for 30 seconds due to last 30 seconds of activity')
 
-    def _learn_line(self, line, target):
+    def _learn_line(self, line, target, event):
         """Create Markov chains from the provided line."""
 
         # set up the head of the chain
@@ -297,9 +295,8 @@ class Markov(Module):
 
         context_id = self._get_context_id_for_target(target)
 
-        # if there's no target, this is probably a sub-command. don't learn it
+        # don't learn recursion
-        if target:
+        if not event._recursing:
-
             words = line.split()
             if len(words) <= 0:
                 return line