Facing difficulties sending bytes containing white spaces python irc bot

Trying to make a basic irc bot in python (3.9.2) that can response specific commands when invoked. It works although when a response contains whitespace or a space, only the first word gets displayed by the bot, for example;

me > @hello
bot > hi
me > @how is the weather?
bot > the

it was supposed to say, the weather seems nice today Here's the code

import sys
import time
import socket
import string

server_address="irc.libera.chat"
server_port = 6667

botnick="lamebot"
channel_name="##megadouched"

irc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
irc.connect((server_address,server_port))
irc.setblocking(False)
time.sleep(1)

irc.send(bytes("USER "+botnick+" "+botnick+" "+botnick+" bot has joined the chat\r\n", "UTF-8"))

time.sleep(1)

irc.send(bytes("NICK "+botnick+"\n", "UTF-8"))
time.sleep(1)

irc.send(bytes("JOIN "+channel_name+"\n", "UTF-8"))

irc_privmsg = 'b"PRIVMSG "+channel_name+" Hello\r\n"'

while True:
    try:
        text = irc.recv(4096)
    except Exception:
        pass
    if text.find(bytes(":@hi", "UTF-8"))!=-1:
        irc.sendall(bytes("PRIVMSG "+channel_name+" Hello\r\n", "UTF-8"))
        text=b""
    elif text.find(bytes(":@how is the weather?", "UTF-8"))!=-1:
        irc.sendall(bytes("PRIVMSG "+channel_name+" the weather today seems nice\r\n", "UTF-8"))
        text=b""

input()