It's a requirement of memcached; the incr command in the underlying
protocol operates on a string it treats as an ASCII representation of
an integer.

I believe memcache stores everything as a string, although the library
has some magic in it to allow you to store any datatype it can pickle.


On Jun 8, 1:26 pm, Ethan Post <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using the code found here.
>
> http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/sharding_counters.html
>
> Upon using this I noticed that it would return an int the first time and a
> str the second. Appears to be the way the value is being stored in memcache.
> I change the line below and works as expected now.
>
>     # memcache.add(name, str(total), 60)
>     memcache.add(name, total, 60)
>
> Am I missing something here? Is there a reason str(total) would be preferred
> over total?
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