Python memcached

Installing the python bindings for the C libmemcached:

1. Patch libmemcache

It's been a while since I used patch, so I thought I'd record the command I used. This was a multifile patch, and it applies the patches to all the right files. How cool is that! The -p1 prunes off one slash of the path since my directory was different to the guys who made the patch.


patch -b -p1 -i libmemcache-1.4.0.rc2.patch



2. Compile and install libmemcache


3. sudo apt-get install python-dev


4. sudo python setup.py install


5. Download the actual memcached, compile and install


6. Use it (StringClient for strings, Client uses pickle for other types):



import cmemcache
a=cmemcache.StringClient(["127.0.0.1:11211"])
a.set('key', 'value')
a.get('key')