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~/pycassa (master)$ ./pycassaShell -k Keyspace1
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Cassandra Interactive Python Shell
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Keyspace: Keyspace1
Host: localhost:9160

Available ColumnFamily instances:
 * CF1                        ( CF1 )

Schema definition tools and cluster information are available through SYSTEM_MANAGER.

In [1]: import random

In [2]: import string

In [3]: key = ''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for x in range(100)])

In [4]: CF1.insert(key, {"col": "val"})
Out[4]: 1360014434309055

In [5]: CF1.get(key)
Out[5]: OrderedDict([('col', 'val')])

In [6]: CF1.remove(key)
Out[6]: 1360014443916222

In [7]: CF1.get(key)
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NotFoundException                         Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/thobbs/pycassa/pycassaShell in <module>()
----> 1 CF1.get(key)

/Users/thobbs/pycassa/pycassa/columnfamily.pyc in get(self, key, columns, column_start, column_finish, column_reversed, column_count, include_timestamp, super_column, read_consistency_level)
    653 
    654             if len(list_col_or_super) == 0:
--> 655                 raise NotFoundException()
    656             return self._cosc_to_dict(list_col_or_super, include_timestamp)
    657 

NotFoundException: NotFoundException(_message=None)

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