I am using redis-py with redish together with gevent and I have my own class EventBot which inherits from Greenlet.

In the `__init__` method of this class I am initialising connection to redis using

```py
self._redis = Client(serializer=serialization.JSON(), **self.REDIS_CONFIG)

```

Sometimes when I try to run the script, it throws `SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call` but sometimes it starts normally. I also tried moving the redis initialization to the `_run()` method, but it didn't helped.

This is the simplified class I am using:

```py
from gevent import monkey, Greenlet
monkey.patch_all()

from sleekxmpp import ClientXMPP
from redish import serialization
from redish.client import Client

class EventBot(ClientXMPP, Greenlet):
    REDIS_CONFIG = {
        'host': 'localhost',
        'port': 6379,
        'db': ""
    }

    def __init__(self, jid, password, redis_config=None):
        ClientXMPP.__init__(self, jid, password)
        Greenlet.__init__(self)

        # Redis init
        if redis_config is not None:
            self.REDIS_CONFIG.update(redis_config)
        self._redis = Client(serializer=serialization.JSON(), **self.REDIS_CONFIG)

        QUESTIONS_KEY = __name__ + '_questions'
        try:
            self._questions = self._redis[QUESTIONS_KEY]
        except KeyError:
            self._questions = self._redis[QUESTIONS_KEY] = {}

    ## Class simplified for better readability ##

    def _run(self):
        self.connect()
        self.process(block=False)

```

Here is the complete traceback:

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "start.py", line 15, in <module>
    bot = EventBot('marie@xxx.com', 'XXXpasswordXXX')
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/gmarie/marie/eventbot.py", line 41, in __init__
    self._questions = self._redis[QUESTIONS_KEY]
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redish/client.py", line 196, in __getitem__
    value = self.api.get(name)
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redis/client.py", line 551, in get
    return self.execute_command('GET', name)
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redis/client.py", line 360, in execute_command
    connection.send_command(*args)
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redis/connection.py", line 301, in send_command
    self.send_packed_command(self.pack_command(*args))
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redis/connection.py", line 283, in send_packed_command
    self.connect()
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redis/connection.py", line 228, in connect
    sock = self._connect()
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/redis/connection.py", line 240, in _connect
    sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gevent/socket.py", line 376, in connect
    wait_readwrite(sock.fileno(), event=self._rw_event)
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gevent/socket.py", line 215, in wait_readwrite
    switch_result = get_hub().switch()
  File "/tmp/sandbox/gmarie/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gevent/hub.py", line 164, in switch
    return greenlet.switch(self)
SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call
Exception KeyError: KeyError(21246672,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py'> ignored

```

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

---

**EDIT:**

Problem seems to be fixed when using `gevent` and `greenlet` system packages (`python2-gevent` and `python2-greenlet` in Arch Linux), but according to their PKGBUILD no additional patching is done there. ([gevent](https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/python2-gevent), [greenlet](https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/python2-greenlet)) Can someone explain what is wrong with installing using pip?