new_contents: import socket
  import sys
  
  server = "irc.twitch.tv"
  password = "oauth:8nq3rymmy4zakeut4p90hx9axnpywj"
  nickname = "twitchlosescheckers"
  channel = "#twitchlosescheckers"
  
  try:
  	irc = socket.socket()
  except socket.error as msg:
  	irc = None
  
  try:
  	irc.connect((server, 6667))
  	print "connected to %s" %(server)
  except socket.error as msg:
  	irc.close()
  	irc = None
  
  if irc is None:
  	print "could not open socket"
  	sys.exit()
  
  irc.send('PASS ' + password + '\n')
  irc.send('NICK ' + nickname + '\n')
  irc.send('JOIN ' + channel + '\n')
  
  while True:
  	twitch_activity = irc.recv(4096)
  	print twitch_activity
  	
  	if "PING" in twitch_activity:
  		irc.send("PONG tmi.twitch.tv");
  
  	# If the channel has receieved a twitch chat message
  	if "PRIVMSG" in twitch_activity:
  
  		# extract the contents of the message
  		i = twitch_activity[1:].find(":")
  		message = twitch_activity[i+2:]
  
  irc.close()
subject: Connect to and read twitch chat