#kafka-python

just set this up http://kafka-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

we should get some API docs up there too

apparently people are using this library IRL, and asking questions about usage on #apache-kafka

(and to my inbox)

yep. I've been using it to drag some messages off topics for investigation

the brokers are in a walled-off production env, so I extended the client/socket classes to allow socks5 proxying