If you're attempting to run a heterogeneous consumer group (different
clients joining same group) then you must take care that the group
protocols have been implemented the same. kafka-python attempts to mirror
the Java client exactly. I haven't looked at pykafka in a while, but it is
possible
> To: users@kafka.apache.org
> From: michael.to...@headforwards.com
> Subject: Client Protocols
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 09:26:59 +0100
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing some testing with two different kafka clients: pykafka and
> kafkapython
>
> When switching between client library, I get an error: