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Methods in the StrictRedis class almost follow the official Redis commands in terms of command name and syntax, with a few exceptions:

1. The DEL command is renamed delete as del is a reserved keyword in Python
2. MULTI/EXEC commands are not there as they are implemented in the pipeline class.
3. The SELECT command is not implemented because of thread-safe problems, which will be explained later.
4. SUBSCRIBE/LISTEN is implemented as in the PubSub class.

In redis-py, there is also a class with the name, Redis. It is a subclass of StrictRedis to provide backward compatibility with older redis-py versions. Their very small differences can be found on the GitHub page of redis-py.

The StrictRedis instance in redis-py is thread-safe, because ...