Jabber Bot for Centrifuge

Today I started experimenting with Python and xmpppy to create a simple bot that does queries to the mysql database used by Centrifuge.
You can ask it to search for a string or return the details of an item if you specify the barcode number.
Example 1: search revolution india
>>prints a list of all matching items, as well as how many that were
Example 2: barcode 1234567
>>prints out all "main" fields
Example 3: help
>>shows you all possible commands
Example 4: cookies
>>tells you that the CMC-Bot loves cookies.

It works rather well, except that it seems to crash at certain intervals (about 30 to 60 minutes) with the error "sslerror: (8, 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol')". Until that is fixed I won't be able to deploy it but if you want to play with it (and it's not
currently offline) go right ahead - it's currently using my test database dump on my laptop - the JID is cmc@[nolongeravailable].

Pro:
-You can verify directly whether an item is currently checked out or not.
-It's neat.
Contra:
-You can only use this feature while the frontdesk is actually switched on.

So, I definitely need to work a bit more on my knowledge about Python and then implement appropriate exception handling. More to come soon.