Pickling Support

[dlo]

Maybe I'm missing something, but there's no support for pickling (as in the memcached library) as far as I can tell.

This is a pretty standard piece of functionality, and it breaks a lot of things that would be expected to work. E.g.

>>> data = {"name": "Bill"}
>>> type(data)
<type 'dict'>
>>> r.set("key", data)
>>> result = r.get("key")
>>> type(result)
<type 'str'>

Did I miss something in the documentation?

[andymccurdy]

You didn't miss anything in the docs. redis-py does not pickle things by default because of the performance costs of doing so. If you need pickling support, I'd suggest subclasses the main Redis class (or StrictRedis if you prefer that), and override get/set.

[dlo]

Awesome, thanks!