Address GitLab issue #14: Automatically split long lines in irk

irk

@@ -43,10 +43,15 @@ def main():
     target = sys.argv[1]
     message = " ".join(sys.argv[2:])
     # Allows pretty formatting of irker messages
-    message = message.decode('string_escape')
+    if str == bytes:
+        message = message.decode('string_escape')
 
+    # The actual IRC limit is 512. Avoid any off-by-ones
+    chunksize = 511
     try:
-        irk(target, message)
+        while message[:chunksize]:
+            irk(target, message[:chunksize])
+            message = message[chunksize:]
     except socket.error as e:
         sys.stderr.write("irk: write to server failed: %r\n" % e)
         sys.exit(1)