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 # pyrethink
-Rudimentary rethinkdb python library with some smarts, perhaps some dumbs
+Rudimentary rethinkdb python library with some smarts (and maybe some dumbs)
+
+## What? Why?
+
+As of now there is a very small amount of code here. I had three projects using the Rethinker class, and had enough code churn inside the class that it became too painful to keep the three copies in sync. Thus, a library shared among them.
+
+Three main purposes:
+- round-robin connections among database servers
+- make sure connections close at proper time
+- retry retry-able queries on failure
+
+Not really a connection pool, because it doesn't keep any connections open, but it does take care of connection management.
+
+## Usage
+```
+import rethinkdb as r
+import pyrethink
+
+rr = pyrethink.Rethinker(['db0.foo.com', 'db0.foo.com:38015', 'db1.foo.com'], 'my_db')
+
+rr.run(r.table('my_table').insert({'foo':'bar','baz':2}))
+
+for result in rr.results_iter(r.table('my_table')):
+    print("result={}".format(result))
+```