Django snippets

import memcache

try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
    from StringIO import StringIO

try:
    import cPickle as pickle
except ImportError:
    import pickle

def data_size(data):
    """Returns the size in bytes of the data passed in."""
    fp = StringIO()
    pickler = pickle.Pickler(fp, protocol=0)
    pickler.dump(data)
    val = fp.getvalue()
    return len(val)

def data_too_large(data):
    """Returns True if the data passed in is too large for memcached."""
    return data_size(data) >= memcache.SERVER_MAX_VALUE_LENGTH