Base

It include String, Hash, List and Set classes, that represent redis datatypes. You need to initialize datatype with key:

>>> dt.List('main stream').append('Blogger Navalniy discovered new corruption scheme in Russia!')
1L
>>> list(dt.List('main stream'))
['Blogger Navalniy discovered new corruption scheme in Russia!']

>>> up = dt.Hash('0:user profile')
>>> up['name'] = 'deepwalker'
>>> dict(up)
{'name': 'deepwalker'}
>>> 'name' in up
True

>>> friends = dt.Set('friends')
>>> friends.add(1929340)
>>> set(friends)
set(['1929340'])
>>> 1929340 in friends
True

Models

Radishsalad has models module that is not positioned as Django ORM thing. Its just helper for keys name generation. So you create an model:

>>> from radishsalad import models as m
>>> class User(m.Model):
...      name = m.String()
...      subscribers = m.Set()
...      profile = m.Hash()
...      messages = m.List()
...      read = m.List()
...

And for using you need initialize it with key:

>>> user = User(1000)

Now you have user instance, and you can get keys for it members:

>>> user.name.get_key()
'user:1000:name'

Library does not return you a string instead of String objects for using in redis.mget:

>>> from radishsalad.connection import get_redis
>>> r = get_redis()
>>> r.mset(dict((User(i).name.get_key(), i) for i in xrange(40)))
>>> r.mget(User(i).name.get_key() for i in xrange(40))
['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', ... '38', '39']