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This module provides low-level protocol support for Apache Kafka as well as high-level consumer and producer classes. Request batching is supported by the protocol as well as broker-aware request routing. Gzip and Snappy compression is also supported for message sets.
On Freenode IRC at #kafka-python, as well as #apache-kafka
For general discussion of kafka-client design and implementation (not python specific), see https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/kafka-clients
Copyright 2014, David Arthur under Apache License, v2.0. See LICENSE
The current stable version of this package is 0.9.2 and is compatible with
Kafka broker versions
- 0.8.0
- 0.8.1
- 0.8.1.1
Python versions
- 2.6 (tested on 2.6.9)
- 2.7 (tested on 2.7.8)
- pypy (tested on pypy 2.3.1 / python 2.7.6)
- (Python 3.3 and 3.4 support has been added to trunk and will be available the next release)