Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

Updates to Python 2.x stopped months ago. Any future release is certain
to be installed and run ...

Without this, some TLDs like `.бел` won't be included in the data table.

Originally added while...

Because Python doesn't have a static type system.

The aliases' docstrings should prevent Sphinx from outputting the same
documentation twice; a si...

Co-authored-by: Exirel <[email protected]>

Python's built-in `strip()` method for strings considers some control
codes used for IRC formatt...

This is for plugin convenience, as otherwise they'd all need to build
their own lists of constan...

The old "module" attr will stick around as a deprecated property until
Sopel 8.0. Until then, an...

It won't start emitting any warnings until 8.0, but we won't have to
remember to decorate it lat...

I'm doing this because it's easier to drop the change later than skip
over it now and then remem...

The empty string is also allowed; it means "request this if no other
CapReq forbids it".

This was requested on our IRC channel. Instead of just telling the user
how to write their own c...

The new test fails without the change in `irc` itself, proving that the
previous algorithm would...

Not quite ready to make this the default behavior, but plugins that make
use of `max_messages` a...

Co-authored-by: Exirel <[email protected]>

New optional parameter to `bot.say()` allows specifying a suffix that
Sopel will append to a mes...

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

coretasks: better SASL handling

Handles SASL 3.1 advertised mechanisms, sent after Sopel's configured
mechanism fails, *sometime...

announce: send announces to TARGMAX channels at once, if advertised

This only works for SASL 3.2 spec. In 3.1, the supported mechanisms are
only advertised after (a...

Seems like the tests for `currency` work (locally) if 0 runs first, but
not if 1 runs first. Sor...

Only one live response that had changed, for the `.suggest` command's
example test in `search`. ...

`test_novcr` is now a shortcut to run pytest with `--disable-vcr`.
The old `test_novcr` has beco...

Allows viewing last update time, forcing the cached data to update, and
clearing the cached data...

tools: make `time` and `web` always accessible by importing `tools`

Simplifies handler function (flattens the logic a bit).

See comments in #1859 and #1953.

Co-authored-by: dgw <[email protected]>

It's really silly that anyone who wants to use the `time` submodule has
to do `import sopel.tool...

In particular, added an example of `logdir` and `log_raw` usage, since
I noticed those were miss...

Copied note about relative path behavior from `pid_dir` to both `logdir`
and `ca_certs` docstrin...

We have been using e.g. '7.0.0.rc2', but `_version_info()` parsed such
version strings incorrect...

Reduces the bot's network overhead, and might make servers happier.

tools: new `SopelIdentifierMemory` class

isup: fix error-series HTTP status codes; get away from assuming TLD

Check whether the MODE message target is a nick *first*, before checking
how many arguments it h...

tld: comprehensive rewrite

core: change/recover in-use nick; fix obsolete USER command syntax

As discussed with @dgw on IRC, the proper USER command should be:

USER <username> 0 * :<real n...

loader, plugin: load decorated callables only

Specified timeout values, both to improve response time of the command
and to make the connect/r...

Includes tests, since that's how I verified that it used to be allowed.

docs: add space before attribute lists

The "com" TLD is nowhere near as common as it once was. It's probably
better to just inform the ...

This explains so much about how I'd check a site that's clearly down if
I visit it in my browser...

List is cached in `bot.memory` at runtime, and persisted to a plugin
value in `bot.db` at shutdo...

Also moved the data-processing step inside the parser object, because
having a helper function f...

Replaced those horrid (and ugly) regex patterns with a bare-bones HTML
parser, an in-memory look...

plugins: check consistency of plugin code and their output formatting

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* no output prefix for emotes, they are too pure!

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* replaced `bot.say` by `bot.reply` for error cases
...

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* replaced `web.quote` by Python's built-in `urlencode`

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* replaced `return bot.reply` by 2 lines

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* used `plugin.output_prefix` with `bot.say` method
...

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* used `plugin.output_prefix` with `bot.say` method

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* used `plugin.output_prefix` with `bot.say` method
...

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* add manual output prefix in job

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* removed obsolete `if main` block

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* replaced `bot.say` by `bot.reply` for error cases
...

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* used output prefix with `bot.say`

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* used output prefix with `bot.say`
* removed obsole...

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* used `plugin.output_prefix` with `bot.say` method
...

* replaced `sopel.module` by `sopel.plugin`
* used `plugin.output_prefix` with `bot.say` method