def determine_slot()

in redis/cluster.py [0:0]


    def determine_slot(self, *args):
        """
        Figure out what slot to use based on args.

        Raises a RedisClusterException if there's a missing key and we can't
            determine what slots to map the command to; or, if the keys don't
            all map to the same key slot.
        """
        command = args[0]
        if self.command_flags.get(command) == SLOT_ID:
            # The command contains the slot ID
            return args[1]

        # Get the keys in the command

        # EVAL and EVALSHA are common enough that it's wasteful to go to the
        # redis server to parse the keys. Besides, there is a bug in redis<7.0
        # where `self._get_command_keys()` fails anyway. So, we special case
        # EVAL/EVALSHA.
        if command.upper() in ("EVAL", "EVALSHA"):
            # command syntax: EVAL "script body" num_keys ...
            if len(args) <= 2:
                raise RedisClusterException(f"Invalid args in command: {args}")
            num_actual_keys = int(args[2])
            eval_keys = args[3 : 3 + num_actual_keys]
            # if there are 0 keys, that means the script can be run on any node
            # so we can just return a random slot
            if len(eval_keys) == 0:
                return random.randrange(0, REDIS_CLUSTER_HASH_SLOTS)
            keys = eval_keys
        else:
            keys = self._get_command_keys(*args)
            if keys is None or len(keys) == 0:
                # FCALL can call a function with 0 keys, that means the function
                #  can be run on any node so we can just return a random slot
                if command.upper() in ("FCALL", "FCALL_RO"):
                    return random.randrange(0, REDIS_CLUSTER_HASH_SLOTS)
                raise RedisClusterException(
                    "No way to dispatch this command to Redis Cluster. "
                    "Missing key.\nYou can execute the command by specifying "
                    f"target nodes.\nCommand: {args}"
                )

        # single key command
        if len(keys) == 1:
            return self.keyslot(keys[0])

        # multi-key command; we need to make sure all keys are mapped to
        # the same slot
        slots = {self.keyslot(key) for key in keys}
        if len(slots) != 1:
            raise RedisClusterException(
                f"{command} - all keys must map to the same key slot"
            )

        return slots.pop()