redis protocol reader for Python 2.X using hiredis

 python-hiredis provides a Python extension that wraps the protocol parsing
 code in Hiredis. It is targeted at speeding up parsing multi bulk replies from
 redis-server.
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 Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database, a
 persistent key-value database with support for atomically manipulating and
 querying data structures such as lists and sets.
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 python-hiredis is not a stand-alone redis client library and requires other
 code to perform low-level I/O with redis.