nova/vendor/redis-py/README.md

redis-py

This is the Python interface to the Redis key-value store.

Usage

>>> import redis
>>> r = redis.Redis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
>>> r.set('foo', 'bar')   # or r['foo'] = 'bar'
True
>>> r.get('foo')   # or r['foo']
'bar'

For a complete list of commands, check out the list of Redis commands here: http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/CommandReference

Author

redis-py is developed and maintained by Andy McCurdy (sedrik@gmail.com). It can be found here: http://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py

Special thanks to:

• Ludovico Magnocavallo, author of the original Python Redis client, from which some of the socket code is still used.
• Alexander Solovyov for ideas on the generic response callback system.
• Paul Hubbard for initial packaging support.