Implementing chat in the app?

Question

I am making a game and I am using Python for the back end.

It would be trivial to implement the chat itself using Python - this is not my question.
My question
I am just wondering if there were any ready-made chat servers or some kind of service that I could implement inside my game, instead of translating my own chat server?
Maybe like another process that I could run next to the game server process?

Answer 1

I recommend using XMPP / Jabber. There are many libraries for clients and servers in different languages. This is a free / open source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

Answer 2

, IRC , irclib python, , IRC .

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Answer 3

Honestly, I believe that it would be better if you dropped your own and integrated with your program. I know that it makes no sense to reinvent the wheel, but in your case there are several advantages: integration, training, safety and simplicity.