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@@ -803,6 +803,9 @@ The basic interface is ``set(key, value, timeout)`` and ``get(key)``::
>>> cache.get('my_key')
'hello, world!'
+``key`` should be a ``str`` (or ``unicode`` on Python 2), and ``value`` can be
+any picklable Python object.
+
The ``timeout`` argument is optional and defaults to the ``timeout`` argument
of the appropriate backend in the :setting:`CACHES` setting (explained above).
It's the number of seconds the value should be stored in the cache. Passing in