Twitch keeps sending spaces to IRC Bot Python

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First off, you should parse the IRC message properly. It’ll save quite a bit of trouble doing it right the first time around.

The second thing is, you only need to identify it as a PING, the trailing part (tmi.twitch.tv) is irrelevant, you’ll just stick it in your PONG reply.

Here’s a snippet from TwitchChatSharp (C#)

    var ircMsg = IrcMessage.FromRawMessage(message);

    MessageReceived(this, new IrcMessageEventArgs(ircMsg));

    switch (ircMsg.Command)
    {
        case IrcCommand.Ping:
            EnqueueMessage(message.Replace("PING", "PONG"), true);
            break;
        case IrcCommand.Reconnect:
            Disconnect();
            break;
    }

As a side-note, please surround code with triple backticks and it’ll show up properly:

```
// code here
```