From e9b8632b6c44df078e55e5478d6ba9a92bfb11e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:44:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make redis backend more portable to older versions

---
 channels/backends/redis_py.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/channels/backends/redis_py.py b/channels/backends/redis_py.py
index 7c65fe9..602e749 100644
--- a/channels/backends/redis_py.py
+++ b/channels/backends/redis_py.py
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ class RedisChannelBackend(BaseChannelBackend):
         self.connection.set(
             key,
             json.dumps(message),
-            ex = self.expiry + 10,
+        )
+        self.connection.expire(
+            key,
+            self.expiry + 10,
         )
         # Add key to list
         self.connection.rpush(