plugable-matrix-bot/run.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
This is Peter. Peter is using the Python Matrix Bot API
"""

__author__ = "Dennis Potter"
__copyright__ = "Copyright 2019, Dennis Potter"
__credits__ = ["Dennis Potter"]
__license__ = "GPL-3.0"
__version__ = "0.5.0"
__maintainer__ = "Dennis Potter"
__email__ = "dennis@dennispotter.eu"

import json
import os
import time
import threading

# Bot API import
from matrix_bot_api.matrix_bot_api import MatrixBotAPI

CONFIG_LOCATION = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'config.json')

def main():
    # Load the configuration
    with open(CONFIG_LOCATION) as json_data:
        config = json.load(json_data)

    # Create an instance of the MatrixBotAPI
    bot = MatrixBotAPI(config)

    # Start polling
    bot.start_polling()

    # Stall this thread while the bot runs in other threads. On ^C, this will
    # indicate to all threads that they should cancel
    try:
        forever = threading.Event();
        forever.wait()
    except:
        bot.cancel = True

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()