My value is stored as a number. Why does it become a string after being taken out with .get()?

key = 'id'
value = 111
await redisdb.set(key, value)
res = await redisdb.get(key)
print(res, type(res))

Is there a way to keep the number type? Thanks

[SuperSajuuk]

Bit late but worth pointing out that Redis doesn’t really have a concept of integers as far as I’ve determined. Anything involving integers will be converted to string automatically. Using set only stores “strings”, so if something is an integer, it gets converted before being stored, hence why your returned value from get() is now a string. You will just have to know which keys will be a pure integer and then cast them to a Python integer.

Side note: I wouldn’t recommend using Pickle for this kind of thing, seems a bit unnecessary. Just test your key for whether it returns None (meaning it doesn’t exist) or convert to int in your code when it does with a try/except block if the value isn’t an integer (but if you know that a specific key will always be an int, you shouldn’t need a try/except).

[MojtabaArezoomand]

@Andrew-Chen-Wang Pickling is working great. Thanks for your early response and help.