client update: tummy-memcached 1.36

Jehiah Czebotar jehiah at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 21:29:33 UTC 2007


If you use the python memcached clinet; there have been a bunch of
changes (one of which i really cared about) rolled into version 1.36
which  Sean Reifschneider released on 6/7.
http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/python-memcached/

for your convenience I've copied content from the changelog below (my
apologies if this went out on the list without me seeing it)

   * Version 1.36

   * Patch by Dave St.Germain to make the Client() class sub-class
     threadlocal to help with multi-threading issues.  Only available in
     Python 2.4 and above.

   * Patch by James Robinson with:
      1) new set_multi method.
      2) factored out determining the flags, length, and value to store
         from set() into method _val_to_store_info() for use by both set()
         and set_multi().
      3) send_cmds() method on host which doesn't apply the trailing '\r\n'
         for use by set_multi.
      4) check_key() extended a bit to allow for testing the prefix passed
         to set_multi just once, not once per each key.
      5) Patch also enables support for auto compression in set, set_multi,
         and replace.

   * Suggestion by Helge Tesdal, fixes in check_key for non-string keys.

   * NOTE: On a farm of clients with multiple servers, all clients will
     need to be upgraded to this version.  The next patch changes the
     server hash.

   * Philip Neustrom supplied a patch to change the server hash function to
     binascii.crc32.  The original "hash()" call is not cross-platform, so
     big and little endian systems accessing the same memcache may end up
     hitting different servers.  Restore the old functionality by calling:
     "memcached.serverHashFunction = hash" after importing memcache.

   * Philip Neustrom points out that passing Unicode keys or values causes
     problems because len(key) or len(value) is not equal to the number of
     bytes that are required to store the key/value.  Philip provides a
     patch which raises an exception in this case.  Raises
     memcache.Client.MemcachedStringEncodingError exception in this case.

   * NOTE: If you recompiled memcached to increase the default 1MB max
     value size, you will need to call "memcached.MAX_SERVER_VALUE_LENGTH = N"
     or memcached will not store values larger than the default 1MB.

   * Philip Neustrom includes another patch which checks that the key
     doesn't exceed the memcache server's max size.  If it does, the item
     is silently not stored.

   * Philip Neustrom added a bunch of sanity checks.

   * Jehiah Czebotar provided a patch to make the add() and replace()
     functions return 0 when the add or replace fails, similar to how set()
     works.


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