Python-redis keys() returns list of bytes objects instead of strings

Question

I\'m using the regular redis package in order to connect my Python code to my Redis server.

As part of my code I check if a string object is existed in my R

Answer 1

Previous answers are correct in that the decode_responses connection parameter is needed to do this automatically, what they omit is that this needs to be set on the ConnectionPool instead if the connections are made using the pool. The below snippet will set the 'decode_responses' value on all clients to true, even if the client sets itself to False during connection

pool = redis.ConnectionPool(host=REDIS_HOST, port=REDIS_PORT, db=REDIS_DB, password=REDIS_PWD, decode_responses=True)