I'm trying to write a dead-simple interface for an IRC library, like so:

import simpleirc

connection = simpleirc.Connect('irc.freenode.net', 6667)
channel = connection.join('foo')
find_command = re.compile(r'google ([a-z]+)').findall

for msg in channel:
    for t in find_command(msg):
        channel.say("http://google.com/search?q=%s" % t)

Working from their example, I'm running into trouble (code is a bit lengthy, so I pasted it here). Since the call to channel.__next__ needs to be returned when the callback <IRCClient instance>.privmsg is called, there doesn't seem to be a clean option. Using exceptions or threads seems like the wrong thing here, is there a simpler (blocking?) way of using twisted that would make this possible?