python-etcd documentation

A python client for Etcd https://github.com/coreos/etcd

Official documentation: http://python-etcd.readthedocs.org/

Installation

Pre-requirements

Install etcd (0.2.rc1 or later). This version of python-etcd will only work correctly with the etcd API version 2.

This client is known to work with python 2.7 and with python 3.3 or above. It is not tested or expected to work in more outddated versions of python.

From source

$ python setup.py install

Usage

The basic methods of the client have changed compared to previous versions, to reflect the new API structure; however a compatibility layer has been maintained so that you don't necessarily need to rewrite all your existing code.

Create a client object

import etcd

client = etcd.Client() # this will create a client against etcd server running on localhost on port 4001
client = etcd.Client(port=4002)
client = etcd.Client(host='127.0.0.1', port=4003)
client = etcd.Client(host='127.0.0.1', port=4003, allow_redirect=False) # wont let you run sensitive commands on non-leader machines, default is true

Write a key

client.write('/nodes/n1', 1)
# with ttl
client.write('/nodes/n2', 2, ttl=4)  # sets the ttl to 4 seconds
client.set('/nodes/n2', 1) # Equivalent, for compatibility reasons.

Read a key

client.read('/nodes/n2').value
client.read('/nodes', recursive = True) #get all the values of a directory, recursively.
client.get('/nodes/n2').value

Delete a key

client.delete('/nodes/n1')

Atomic Compare and Swap

client.write('/nodes/n2', 2, prevValue = 4) # will set /nodes/n2 's value to 2 only if its previous value was 4 and
client.write('/nodes/n2', 2, prevExists = False) # will set /nodes/n2 's value to 2 only if the key did not exist before
client.write('/nodes/n2', 2, prevIndex = 30) # will set /nodes/n2 's value to 2 only if the key was last modified at index 30
client.test_and_set('/nodes/n2', 2, 4) #equivalent to client.write('/nodes/n2', 2, prevValue = 4)

You can also atomically update a result:

result = client.read('/foo')
print(result.value) # bar
result.value += u'bar'
updated = client.update(result) # if any other client wrote '/foo' in the meantime this will fail
print(updated.value) # barbar

Watch a key

client.read('/nodes/n1', watch = True) # will wait till the key is changed, and return once its changed
client.read('/nodes/n1', watch = True, timeout=30) # will wait till the key is changed, and return once its changed, or exit with an exception after 30 seconds.
client.read('/nodes/n1', watch = True, watchIndex = 10) # get all changes on this key starting from index 10
client.watch('/nodes/n1') #equivalent to client.read('/nodes/n1', watch = True)
client.watch('/nodes/n1', index = 10)

Locking module

# Initialize the lock object:
# NOTE: this does not acquire a lock yet
client = etcd.Client()
lock = client.get_lock('/customer1', ttl=60)

# Use the lock object:
lock.acquire(timeout=30) #returns if lock could not be acquired within 30 seconds
lock.is_locked()  # True
lock.renew(60)
lock.release()
lock.is_locked()  # False

# The lock object may also be used as a context manager:
client = etcd.Client()
lock = client.get_lock('/customer1', ttl=60)
with lock as my_lock:
    do_stuff()
    lock.is_locked()  # True
    lock.renew(60)
lock.is_locked()  # False

Leader Election module

# Set a leader object with a name; if no name is given, the local hostname
# is used.
# Zero or no ttl means the leader object is persistent.
client = etcd.Client()
client.election.set('/mysql', name='foo.example.com', ttl=120, timeout=30) # returns the etcd index

# Get the name
print(client.election.get('/mysql')) # 'foo.example.com'
# Delete it!
print(client.election.delete('/mysql', name='foo.example.com'))

Get machines in the cluster

client.machines

Get leader of the cluster

client.leader

Development setup

To create a buildout,

$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

to test you should have etcd available in your system path:

$ bin/test

to generate documentation,

$ cd docs
$ make

Release HOWTO

To make a release

1. Update release date/version in NEWS.txt and setup.py
2. Run 'python setup.py sdist'
3. Test the generated source distribution in dist/
4. Upload to PyPI: 'python setup.py sdist register upload'