From 6ee5c6dae7d761d753755c672fe7514848509cb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mutantmonkey <mutantmonkey@mutantmonkey.in>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:39:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] another go at fixing intermittent disconnections

---
 bot.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bot.py b/bot.py
index 26d9ae6..21ba4ab 100755
--- a/bot.py
+++ b/bot.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import irc
 home = os.getcwd()
 
 def decode(bytes): 
-    if not bytes or type(bytes) == str:
+    if type(bytes) == str:
         return bytes
     try:
         text = bytes.decode('utf-8')
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class Phenny(irc.Bot):
 
     def dispatch(self, origin, args): 
         bytes, event, args = args[0], args[1], args[2:]
-        text = str(bytes)
+        text = decode(bytes)
         event = decode(event)
 
         if origin.nick in self.config.ignore: