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+redis-py
+--------
+
+This is the Python interface to the Redis key-value store.
+
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+    >>> import redis
+    >>> r = redis.Redis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
+    >>> r.set('foo', 'bar')   # or r['foo'] = 'bar'
+    True
+    >>> r.get('foo')
+    'bar'
+
+For a complete list of commands, check out the list of Redis commands here:
+http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/CommandReference
+
+
+Author
+======
+
+redis-py is developed and maintained by Andy McCurdy (sedrik@gmail.com).
+It can be found here: http://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py
+
+Special thanks to:
+
+* Ludovico Magnocavallo, author of the original Python Redis client, from
+  which some of the socket code is still used.
+* Alexander Solovyov for ideas on the generic response callback system.
+* Paul Hubbard for initial packaging support.
+