retools - A Python Redis Toolset¶

retools is a concise set of well-tested extensible Python Redis tools.

Caching
- Hit/Miss Statistics
- Regions for common expiration periods and invalidating batches of functions at once.
- Write-lock to prevent the Thundering Herd
Distributed Locking
- Python context-manager with lock timeouts and retries
Queuing
- Simple forking worker based on Resque
- Jobs stored as JSON in Redis for easy introspection
- setproctitle used by workers for easy worker introspection on the command line
- Rich event system for extending job processing behavior
Well Tested [1]
- 100% statement coverage
- 100% condition coverage (via instrumental)

Reference Material¶

Reference material includes documentation for every retools API.

[1]	queuing not up to 100% testing yet