[kapso]

"It turns out that socket operations that fail in python-memcached don’t return an error or raise any exceptions."

...Whats surprising is that this went untested for so long.

[suhail]

We've been very well aware of it and safely worked around it at the time. It was also something we just disliked and so we changed it across our entire codebase when we decided to write our own library.

When we said "it turns out", we didn't mean that we had suddenly learned that after failure. It's just something we meant to note that we decided to fix.