Before launching into how to build our sample application it is a good idea to look at what the Python Membase module offers. For this tutorial, only a small portion of the module will be used. This is to keep it simple, but in the future, more advanced tutorials will show you how to take advantage of more of these features.

The membase API instance is mainly accessed through an object called VBucketAwareCouchbaseClient. All the main methods shown in this tutorial are called through that client. Using this object, you create a connection to the server and use the get, set and similar functions to interact with the server as shown in the related Getting Started guide.