local variable 'val' referenced before assignment

[Sorunome]

memcached = memcache.Client(['127.0.0.1:11211'],debug=0)

memcached.get('oirc_lines_0')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/memcache.py", line 888, in get
return self._get('get', key)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/memcache.py", line 872, in _get
return _unsafe_get()
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/memcache.py", line 861, in _unsafe_get
value = self._recv_value(server, flags, rlen)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/memcache.py", line 1026, in _recv_value
return val
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'val' referenced before assignment

This value was set by another program, the memcached library of PHP and should contain a string, if all is working as it should.

[eguven]

original repo has added py23 support thus this is deprecated