Redis in Python

This repository provides a Python client for interacting with Redis, an open-source, in-memory data structure store. The Redis client library allows you to connect to a Redis server and perform various operations such as storing, retrieving, and manipulating data using Python.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Examples
• Contributing
• License

Installation

To use Redis in Python, you need to install the redis package. You can do this using pip, the Python package manager. Open a terminal or command prompt and execute the following command:

pip install redis

Make sure you have a working Python installation and pip is configured correctly before running the command.

Usage

To use the Redis client in your Python code, you first need to import the redis module. Here's an example:

import redis

Next, you can create a Redis client object by calling the Redis() constructor. The constructor takes several optional arguments, such as host, port, password, etc. If you're running Redis locally, the default values should work fine.

r = redis.Redis()

Once you have the Redis client object, you can start interacting with Redis by calling various methods provided by the client. Some common operations include get, set, hset, hgetall, lpush, lrange, etc. Refer to the Redis documentation for a complete list of available commands.

Here's an example that demonstrates basic Redis operations:

# Setting a key-value pair
r.set('name', 'John Doe')

# Getting the value associated with a key
name = r.get('name')
print(name)  # Output: b'John Doe'

# Storing a hash
r.hset('user:1', 'name', 'John Doe')
r.hset('user:1', 'age', 30)

# Retrieving all fields and values from a hash
user = r.hgetall('user:1')
print(user)  # Output: {b'name': b'John Doe', b'age': b'30'}

Remember to handle exceptions appropriately when working with Redis, as network issues or server errors may occur.

Examples

To see more examples of how to use Redis in Python, check out the examples directory in this repository. It contains code snippets that demonstrate various Redis operations, such as string, hash, list, set, and sorted set manipulations.

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.

Before contributing, please review the contributing guidelines for this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute the code for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Refer to the LICENSE file for more information.