Glossary

asyncio

Reference implementation of PEP 3156

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncio

error replies

Redis server replies that start with - (minus) char. Usually starts with -ERR.

hiredis

Python extension that wraps protocol parsing code in hiredis.

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hiredis

pytest

A mature full-featured Python testing tool. See http://pytest.org/latest/

uvloop

Is an ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv. See https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop