Finally caved in and created a command table. It's just going to get too messy with @-commands doing straight module lookups, plus the dict is probably a little faster. Feel free to start moving non-privved @-commands to commands_general and vice-versa since we now have the ability to do so.

functions_comsys.py

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+from apps.objects.models import CommChannel
 import session_mgr
 import commands_privileged
 import commands_general
 import commands_comsys
 import commands_unloggedin
+import ansi
 """
 Comsys functions.
 """
@@ -21,3 +23,17 @@ def get_com_who(channel, muted=False, disconnected=False):
 
 def get_user_channels(player):
   pass
+
+def create_channel(cdat):
+   """
+   Create a new channel. cdat is a dictionary that contains the following keys.
+   REQUIRED KEYS:
+    * name: The name of the new channel.
+    * owner: The creator of the channel.
+   """
+   new_chan = CommChannel()
+   new_chan.name = ansi.parse_ansi(cdat["name"], strip_ansi=True)
+   new_chan.header = "[%s]" % (ansi.parse_ansi(cdat["name"]),)
+   new_chan.set_owner(cdat["owner"])
+   new_chan.save()
+   return new_chan