This software is a 100% Python interface to the memcached memory cache daemon. It is the client side software which allows storing values in one or more, possibly remote, memcached servers. Search google for memcached for more information.
This library is stable and largely in maintenance mode. Another library that is getting more active enhancements is pymemcache and they have links and a good set of comparisons between them on their page.
This package was originally written by Evan Martin of Danga. Please do not contact Evan about maintenance. Sean Reifschneider of tummy.com, ltd. has taken over maintenance of it.
Please report issues and submit code changes to the github repository at:
https://github.com/linsomniac/python-memcached
For changes prior to 2013-03-26, see the old Launchpad repository at:
Historic issues: https://launchpad.net/python-memcached
Test patches locally and easily by running tox:
pip install tox
tox -e py312
Test for style by running tox:
tox -e pep8
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Pure python memcached client
We found that python-memcached demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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