pack multiple commands in a pipeline into larger strings.

fixes #495

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/redis/connection.py b/redis/connection.py
index 40966e3..2123b33 100755
--- a/redis/connection.py
+++ b/redis/connection.py
@@ -598,6 +598,22 @@ class Connection(object):
         output.append(buff)
         return output
 
+    def pack_commands(self, commands):
+        "Pack multiple commands into the Redis protocol"
+        pieces = []
+        buff = ''
+
+        for cmd in commands:
+            packed = self.pack_command(*cmd)[0]
+            buff = SYM_EMPTY.join((buff, packed))
+            if len(buff) > 6000:
+                pieces.append(buff)
+                buff = ''
+
+        if buff:
+            pieces.append(buff)
+        return pieces
+
 
 class SSLConnection(Connection):
     description_format = "SSLConnection<host=%(host)s,port=%(port)s,db=%(db)s>"