birdisle: an in-process redis for unit testing by Bruce Merry

A Lightning Talk at PyConZA 2018

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1. birdisle birdisle An in-process redis for unit testing An in-process redis for unit testing
2. In [1]: import redis r = redis.StrictRedis('localhost') r.set('hello', 'world') r.get('hello') Out[1]: b'world'
3. Problems Problems Redis is not friendly to embedding in a process. It has lots of global state installs signal handlers changes rlimits changes global locale settings forks does logging exits without freeing any resources
4. In [2]: import birdisle.redis b = birdisle.redis.StrictRedis() b.set('hello', 'world') b.get('hello') Out[2]: b'world'