[mmcnickle]

The servers are returning the output of the redis-py library, which maps returned values from redis into python objects (hashes -> dicts etc).

I had a quick look but I don't see an easy way to have redis-py pass forward the raw return values, though I think it could be done with some effort. So this isn't a drop in proxy for a redis server just yet.

Edit: referring to the TCP/HTTP Servers above, the library itself can be used as a drop in replacement for redis-py in python.