Ability to GET or MGET raw bytes

[malthe]

Currently, you need to configure decoding preferences on the connection or pool object, and eventually this is written to connection._parser.encoding.

I have a use-case where I occassionally need to GET or MGET raw bytestrings (this is Python 3). There is no way to easily do this except to create a new connection.

Perhaps an easy fix is to simply say redis.get(..., encoding=None) – ?

[andymccurdy]

The current suggested way getting/setting raw bytes is to set the encoding argument to None when creating your Redis client object: r = redis.StrictRedis(encoding=None). If you're building a connection from an URL then add encoding= to the querystring.

Yes, this means that you may need two different connection objects in your app, but since connection objects are thread-safe and fork-safe, you only need to create them one time.

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