[ishaanbahal]

The emphasis could also have been done to educate folks using this combination to check their setup.

Though version reference in the postmartem should also be posted, as a general guidance to their own readers, but at least a quick google search leads you to it.

https://github.com/redis/redis-py/releases/tag/v4.5.3

For anyone reading this and using a combination of asyncio and py-redis, please bump your versions.

Similar issues I've encountered with asyncio python and postgres too in the past when trying to pool connections. It's really not easy to debug them either.