$ wget <desired redis version>
$ tar xzf <file>
$ cd <created folder>
$ make

$ redis-server

$ redis-cli

• Full list of commands in: http://redis.io/commands

• ping, if everything is good, the server will respond pong.
• select, to select one of the 16 databases that Redis manage.

$ pip install redis

import redis
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='192.168.0.100', db=0, socket_timeout=2)
r.set('foo', 'bar')
print r.get('foo')

• You can connect to several isolated interfaces changing db argument.
• flushdb() will flush the database you are connected to (cleaning all the keys), while flushall() will clear all the keys in every database.
• Connecting/disconnecting for each operation is too expensive, so it is much better to maintain the connection opened. With redis-py it can be done by declaring a pool of connections (ConnectionPool class).

import redis
 
POOL = redis.ConnectionPool(host='10.0.0.1', port=6379, db=0)
 
def getVariable(variable_name):
    my_server = redis.Redis(connection_pool=POOL)
    response = my_server.get(variable_name)
    return response
 
def setVariable(variable_name, variable_value):
    my_server = redis.Redis(connection_pool=POOL)
    my_server.set(variable_name, variable_value)