rdbgenerate

Utility for generating Redis dump (.rdb) files from Python native objects

Installation

You can install this package using pip

pip install rdbgenerate

Version support

rdbgenerate is written for Python 3.

Generated .rdb files

The .rdb files generated by rdbgenerate:

• do not use compression to reduce size, unlike Redis itself which uses smart encoding formats to keep file size down
• do not include auxiliary information such as database size hints, additional version information, etc.

Usage

Once installed, use rdb_generate to write .rdb files.

$ python
>>> from rdbgenerate import rdb_generate
>>> rdb_generate(
        'dump.rdb',
        db0={
            b"a": b"0",
            b"b": {b"1"},
            b"c": [b"1", b"2", b"3"],
            b"d": {b"x": b"y"}
        },
        db1={
            b"California": b"dreamin'"
        }
    )
>>> quit()
$ redis-server

Encodings

This package supports strings that are Python bytes objects. It does not support regular Python strings. Python strings can be converted to bytes via

>>> s = "California"
>>> b = s.encode('utf8')
>>> print(b)
b"California"

For more information on string encoding in Python 3, see https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html .