I think you're on the right track with the IRC idea, but start with something simpler. You can find tutorials or working programs using the asynchat module to make a really basic chat client. Then you build a higher level protocol on top of that. It should take care of most of the low level networking for you. But when you're ready for that, look up nonblocking I/O and the select() system call.
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