bmemcached creates a new server connection on every request

gistfile1.txt

mattb@mattb-mitx:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/memcached restart
Restarting memcached: memcached.

mattb@mattb-mitx:~ $ cat test_bmemcached.py 
#!/usr/bin/env python

import bmemcached
import time

c = bmemcached.Client()

while 1:
    time.sleep(1)
    print c.stats().values()[0]['total_connections']
    print c.set('1', '2')
    print c.get('1')
    print

mattb@mattb-mitx:~ $ ./test_bmemcached.py 
7
True
2

10
True
2

13
True
2

16
True
2

19
True
2

22
True
2

25
True
2

28
True
2

31
True
2

34
True
2

37
True
2