I would argue that python-memcached has been replaced as "the de-facto standard" by pylibmc. I'm not sure if pylibmc works with eventlet or not. Companies open

I would argue that python-memcached has been replaced as "the de-facto standard" by pylibmc. I'm not sure if pylibmc works with eventlet or not. Companies open sourcing code is always good. But, I would be surprised if there wasn't already a python memcached client that would suit your needs.