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A comprehensive, fast, pure-Python memcached client.

Is pinterest/pymemcache beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, pinterest/pymemcache merged 4 of 11 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Forks
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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
23
Avg merge
3h 17m
Merged PRs (30d)
4
Dominant language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 11, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 12, 2026
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  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
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  • check_key_helper accepts whitespace-only keys, which the docs say it must reject
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#662 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • MockMemcacheClient should always return str or bytes (?)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#649 · 4 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • _parse_hex function is fed with base 8 instead of base 16.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#633 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • New release?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#622 · 1 comment · 5 reactions ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • OSError: [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address with pymemcache
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    pinterest/pymemcache#621 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Avoid raising MemcacheServerError
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    pinterest/pymemcache#613 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'recv'
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    pinterest/pymemcache#612 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Officially support Python 3.11, 3.12 on PyPI
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#611 · 5 reactions ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • pymemcache.exceptions.MemcacheUnknownCommandError: b'get' when hitting maximum number of connections
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

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

    pinterest/pymemcache#550 · 3 comments · 3 reactions ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • AttributeError: 'HashClient' object has no attribute 'stats'
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement newbie

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#549 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Would it be feasible to provide asyncio compatible client?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#533 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Add support for blocking pools
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement newbie

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#519 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Peformance issue with get_many
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#478 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • KeyError caused by wrong key type.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    pinterest/pymemcache#450 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • tls client certificate has expired
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#396 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • MemcacheServerError byte string message
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#392 · 3 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • pymemcache fails if resolving the memcached server fails
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#318 · 5 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Are type annotations available somewhere?
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement python3

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#270 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • metaget ascii protocol updates
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    pinterest/pymemcache#251 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · 2 assignees ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Add comparison with 'bmemcached'
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#88 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Support for AWS ElastiCache "config" command (needed to support cluster configuration)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement Hacktoberfest

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

    pinterest/pymemcache#87 · 8 comments · 6 reactions ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Add support for the binary protocol
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#54 · 10 comments · 4 reactions ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • HashClient._set_many() fails to report failures
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    pinterest/pymemcache#353 · 4 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

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