The INCRBY instruction executed by a Redis pipeline return a reference to the pipeline instead the value of the key modified

I have some problem to use Redis pipeline. I need to execute 2 commands (incr() and set()) by a Redis transaction.

Environment info: redis-py version 3.5.3; the version of the Redis server is v=5.0.5.

So I have tried to use the following code (the code example is reproducible):

import redis

r = redis.Redis()
pipe = r.pipeline()

def redis_insertion():
    pipe.multi()
    testIndex = pipe.incr('testIndex')
    pipe.set('new_key:' + str(testIndex), 'new_value')
    pipe.execute()
    pipe.reset()

redis_insertion()

By Monitor I can see the real commands executed by the redis server:

> redis-cli monitor
OK
1684750490.821375 [0 127.0.0.1:47322] "MULTI"
1684750490.821394 [0 127.0.0.1:47322] "INCRBY" "testIndex" "1"
1684750490.821400 [0 127.0.0.1:47322] "SET" "new_key:Pipeline<ConnectionPool<Connection<host=localhost,port=6379,db=0>>>" "new_value"
1684750490.821411 [0 127.0.0.1:47322] "EXEC"

The problem is that the instruction pipe.set('new_key:' + str(testIndex), 'new_value') return:

Pipeline<ConnectionPool<Connection<host=localhost,port=6379,db=0>>>

instead of the value of the key testIndex after the execution of the INCRBY instruction.

Could someone explain me this behaviour?

The execute function returns a list of command responses from Redis, so your incr response should be the first thing in that list.

Example:

from redis import Redis

redis_client = Redis(decode_responses=True)

pipeline = redis_client.pipeline(transaction=False)

pipeline.incr("somekey", 1)
pipeline.set("hello", "world")
pipeline.get("hello")
responses = pipeline.execute()

print(responses)

Output:

$ python demo.py
[3, True, 'world']

Versions:

$ cat requirements.txt
async-timeout==4.0.2
redis==4.5.5
$ python --version
Python 3.10.7