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.
