redis/redis-py

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Redis Python client

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Indexed issues: 37
Avg merge: 2d 22h
Merged PRs (30d): 25

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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37 open issues indexed

Sentinel discovery traffic always lands on the same sentinel node, causing load imbalance Open

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redis/redis-py#4330 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
RedisCluster and async RedisCluster disagree on an empty target_nodes Open

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redis/redis-py#4318 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2026
PubSub and maintenance-push reads loop forever on `InvalidResponse` because the offending reply is never consumed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

redis/redis-py#4291 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Lock(timeout=0): reacquire()/extend(replace_ttl=True) silently DELETE the lock and return True Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

redis/redis-py#4279 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Use ZRANGE REV for zrange(desc=True) on supported Redis versions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redis/redis-py#4268 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
asyncio: passing the sync redis.retry.Retry silently disables retries and failure callbacks Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

redis/redis-py#4262 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Cluster transaction/script follow-ups for handling EVALSHA in async cluster transaction; async connection ownership and missing sync Script test Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

redis/redis-py#4253 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
ClusterClient: latency-aware read load balancing (power-of-two-choices + peak-EWMA) Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

redis/redis-py#4185 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Async Redis cannot use hiredis pack_command Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

redis/redis-py#4176 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2026
redis-py pure-Python parser hits RecursionError on deeply nested RESP replies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

redis/redis-py#4116 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
RESP3 default in 8.0 breaks connections to servers/proxies that don't support HELLO (no fallback) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

redis/redis-py#4089 · 3 comments · Opened May 29, 2026
RedisCluster: Transient node failure causes thundering herd on initialize(), leading to pool exhaustion under high concurrency Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#4074 · 3 comments · Opened May 20, 2026
Potential memory leak when using redis.asyncio RedisCluster with FastAPI Open

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redis/redis-py#4072 · 3 comments · Opened May 18, 2026
Connection regression since 7.1.0 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

redis/redis-py#4026 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2026
Resharding redis cluster Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#4015 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2026
Switch to Trusted Publishing for package upload to PyPI in CI Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

redis/redis-py#4008 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 25, 2026
Using redis.json().get() Changes behavior of redis.execute() Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redis/redis-py#3937 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Async redis-py client does not support client-side caching / key tracking Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#3916 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Restrict total connection lifetime to prevent using invalidated credentials Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

redis/redis-py#3895 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2025
SentinelConnectionPool does not retrieve updated master address from Sentinel on connection retries Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

redis/redis-py#3874 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 9, 2025
sentinel client should listen for switch-master Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#3867 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2025
async cluster does not close Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

redis/redis-py#3846 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 15, 2025
AttributeError during Redis Cluster create-before-destroy process Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#3835 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2025
REPLICA commands missing in Sentinel Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

redis/redis-py#3817 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2025
Timeout errors and new connections spiking Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#3800 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2025
Shutdown from redis client takes a long time Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

redis/redis-py#3704 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2025
Serious performance issue with redis connection pooling due to CaseInsensitiveDict Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

redis/redis-py#3624 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 29, 2025
Type hints for chained pipelines Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

redis/redis-py#3615 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2025
redis.exceptions.ConnectionError: Error while reading from xxx:3003 : (1, '[SSL: TLSV13_ALERT_CERTIFICATE_REQUIRED] tlsv13 alert certificate required (_ssl.c:2570)') Open

redis/redis-py#3599 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 12, 2025
socket_timeout parameter on async connections actually apply to multiple socket read operations Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redis/redis-py#3454 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 9, 2024
Pipeline `execute` in async blocks as it packs the commands Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#3416 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2024
ResponseError: Missing library metadata Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

redis/redis-py#3307 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2024
Ssubscribe not honoring `read_from_replicas` flag Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redis/redis-py#3266 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2024
Async redis in multiprocessing situation hangs while attempting connection in the child process Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

redis/redis-py#3141 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2024
Notice speed regression from v4 -> v5 with hiredis Open

stale

redis/redis-py#3039 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 13, 2023
Blocking command `timeout` cannot exceed client's `socket_timeout` Open

bug

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redis/redis-py#2807 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2023
We need examples! Open

good first issue help-wanted maintenance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

redis/redis-py#1744 · 19 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Nov 23, 2021

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