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@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ specify `decode_responses=True` to `Redis.__init__`. In this case, any Redis command that returns a string type will be decoded with the `encoding` specified. +The default encoding is "utf-8", but this can be customized with the `encoding` +argument to the `redis.Redis` class. The `encoding` will be used to +automatically encode any strings passed to commands, such as key names and +values. When `decode_responses=True`, string data returned from commands +will be decoded with the same `encoding`. + Upgrading from redis-py 2.X to 3.0 ---------------------------------- |