From 2d11e3ad350de2f9ea70242e7c4edc2468113d49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Pierre MOMON <cmomon@april.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 18:24:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Tried to add bug detection.

---
 redminebot.py | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/redminebot.py b/redminebot.py
index 6fe6491..730406c 100755
--- a/redminebot.py
+++ b/redminebot.py
@@ -170,10 +170,13 @@ class Bot(object):
     # them to the console. This function will be run in a thread, see below.
     def msg_handler(self):  # pragma: no cover  (this excludes this function from testing)
         new_msg = self.ircsock.recv(2048)  # receive data from the server
-        new_msg = new_msg.strip('\n\r')  # removing any unnecessary linebreaks
-
-        if new_msg != '' and new_msg.find("PING :") == -1:
-            print(datetime.datetime.now().isoformat() + " " + new_msg)
+        if not new_msg:
+            print "Empty recv."
+            new_msg=''
+        else:
+            new_msg = new_msg.strip('\n\r')  # removing any unnecessary linebreaks
+            if new_msg != '' and new_msg.find("PING :") == -1:
+                print(datetime.datetime.now().isoformat() + " " + new_msg)
         return new_msg
 
     # Checks for messages.