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     >>> r.get('foo')
     'bar'
 
+By default, all responses are returned as `bytes` in Python 3 and `str` in
+Python 2. The user is responsible for decoding to Python 3 strings or Python 2
+unicode objects.
+
+If **all** string responses from a client should be decoded, the user can
+specify `decode_responses=True` to `StrictRedis.__init__`. In this case, any
+Redis command that returns a string type will be decoded with the `encoding`
+specified.
+
 API Reference
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