memcache_client is a minimal, pure python client for memcached, kestrel, etc. It is an alternative to the de-facto pure python standard client 'python-memcached', but is not intended to be a drop-in replacement. The main features are better timeout handling and enforcement of bytestring keys and values.

• Minimal API
  • Only supports set, get, delete, and stats
  • Client connects to single host -- no sharding over slabs
  • TCP sockets only -- no UDP or UNIX sockets
  • bytestring keys/values only -- no pickling/casting
• Additional functionality
  • Timeouts via socket.settimeout() for fail-fast behavior
  • Transparent retry for a few common cases
• Pure python
  • Eventlet friendly

The API looks very similar to the other memcache clients:

import memcache
mc = memcache.Client("127.0.0.1", 11211, timeout=1, connect_timeout=5)
mc.set("some_key", "Some value")
value = mc.get("some_key")
mc.delete("another_key")