Improve a few minor things.

Prevents "Unhandled command <stuff>" from writing to file, add back
weird piece of code to prevent too many templates and "would send
message to fake nick" message and creates file on startup if it doesn't
exist.

modules/common.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import imp
 from tools import logger
 
 log = logger("errors.log")
+alog = logger(None)
 
 def on_privmsg(cli, rawnick, chan, msg, notice = False):
     currmod = ld.MODULES[ld.CURRENT_MODULE]
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ def __unhandled__(cli, prefix, cmd, *args):
                     log(traceback.format_exc())
                     cli.msg(botconfig.CHANNEL, "An error has occurred and has been logged.")
     elif botconfig.VERBOSE_MODE or botconfig.DEBUG_MODE:
-        log('Unhandled command {0}({1})'.format(cmd, [arg.decode('utf_8') for arg in args if isinstance(arg, bytes)]), write=False)
+        alog('Unhandled command {0}({1})'.format(cmd, [arg.decode('utf_8') for arg in args if isinstance(arg, bytes)]))
 
     
 COMMANDS = {}

modules/wolfgame.py

@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ def mass_mode(cli, md):
 
 def pm(cli, target, message):  # message either privmsg or notice, depending on user settings
     if is_fake_nick(target) and botconfig.DEBUG_MODE:
+        debuglog("would message fake nick {0}: {1}".format(target, message))
         return
 
     if is_user_notice(target):
@@ -5416,6 +5417,7 @@ def start(cli, nick, chan, forced = False):
                 return
             else:
                 cli.msg(chan, "This role has been skipped for this game.")
+                var.ROLES[template] = []
                 continue
 
         var.ROLES[template] = random.sample(possible, len(var.ROLES[template]))

tools/__init__.py

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ def get_timestamp():
     return tmf.format(tzname=tz, tzoffset=offset).upper()
 
 def logger(file, write=True, display=True):
+    if file is not None:
+        open(file, "a").close() # create the file if it doesn't exist
     def log(*output, write=write, display=display):
         output = " ".join([str(x) for x in output])
         if botconfig.DEBUG_MODE: