1The Redis class, a subclass of StrictRedis, overrides several other commands to provide backwards compatibility with older versions of redis-py
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3redis-py exposes two client classes that implement these commands
4The StrictRedis class attempts to adhere to the official command syntax.
5Do you need backwards compatibility? Use Redis. Don't care? Use StrictRedis.
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7redis-py 3.0 drops support for the legacy "Redis" client class. "StrictRedis" has been renamed to "Redis"
8and an alias named "StrictRedis" is provided so that users previously using "StrictRedis" can continue to run unchanged.