irkerd: Add Python-3-compatible string handling

[irker.git] / irk

diff --git a/irk b/irk
index a8a2f42bc92fb8ad2b471f1d884a05192a5a3456..954713dce81b87ae29cb7758cc5b595268458726 100755 (executable)
--- a/irk
+++ b/irk
@@ -22,17 +22,12 @@ def send(target, message):
         s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
         s.sendall(json.dumps(data))
     except socket.error, e:
-        sys.stderr.write("irkerd: write to server failed: %r\n" % e)
+        sys.stderr.write("irk: write to server failed: %r\n" % e)
 
-# Spawn an irkerd instance if none is running.
 try:
-    # irkerd might already be running
     s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
 except:
-    # If it isn't, spawn an instance
-    print "Spawning an irker instance..."
-    subprocess.Popen("irkerd", shell=True)
-    time.sleep(0.5)
+    print "No irker is running."
 
 target = sys.argv[1]
 if not "irc:" in target: