Merge existing changes to the forked version

[zach-iee]

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Description of change

I'm migrating changes i've made in Soda to the forked redis-py. This should remove most of the duplicated codes in the Soda.
I'll be merging the changes to the master first and backport the changes to 4.4 and 4.5 branch later to release the custom version

This is a public repository, so i've not migrated the Soda specific codes

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