From 61e09d453a159ed31291f1636f936730038682bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:58:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Better handling of umodes.

---
 src/irclib.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/irclib.py b/src/irclib.py
index f2eaa3a51..676a614c7 100644
--- a/src/irclib.py
+++ b/src/irclib.py
@@ -690,10 +690,11 @@ class Irc(IrcCommandDispatcher):
         # Let's reset nicks in case we had to use a weird one.
         self.alternateNicks = conf.supybot.nick.alternates()[:]
         umodes = conf.supybot.protocols.irc.umodes()
-        umodes = umodes.lstrip('+')
         if umodes:
-            log.info('Sending user modes to %s: +%s', self.network, umodes)
-            self.sendMsg(ircmsgs.mode(self.nick, '+%s' % umodes))
+            if umodes[0] not in '+-':
+                umodes = '+' + umodes
+            log.info('Sending user modes to %s: %s', self.network, umodes)
+            self.sendMsg(ircmsgs.mode(self.nick, umodes))
     do377 = do422 = do376
 
     def do433(self, msg):