python-libmemcached is a python wrapper for libmemcached.

Features

• support libmemcached-0.40
• support large item (>=1M), auto splitting and merging
• configable item compression and decompression when needed
• use marshal prior to cPickle when serializing.
• nonblock by default
• fail-over patch for libmemcached-0.40
• empty string patch for libmemcached-0.40
• set_multi, prepend_multi, delete_multi
• buffer requests patch for libmemcached-0.40

Dependence

• libmemcached 0.40
• python 2.5+
• Pyrex 0.9.4+

Install

1. Download libmemcached 0.40 and python-libmemcached 0.40, and extract them.

$ wget http://launchpad.net/libmemcached/1.0/0.40/+download/libmemcached-0.40.tar.gz
$ tar zxf libmemcached-0.40.tar.gz
$ wget http://python-libmemcached.googlecode.com/files/python-libmemcached-0.40.tar.gz
$ tar zxf python-libmemcached-0.40.tar.gz

2. patch libmemcached, and install it

cd libmemcached-0.40
patch -p1 < ../ython-libmemcached/patches/empty_string.patch
patch -p1 < ../ython-libmemcached/patches/request_buffer.patch
patch -p1 < ../ython-libmemcached/patches/fail_over.patch
./configure
make
make install

3. install python-libmemcached 0.40

cd  python-libmemcached ; 
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

4.Test

python benchmark.py