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Compression
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kafka-python supports gzip compression/decompression natively. To produce or
consume lz4 compressed messages, you must install lz4tools and xxhash (modules
may not work on python2.6). To enable snappy compression/decompression install
python-snappy (also requires snappy library).
kafka-python supports gzip compression/decompression natively. To produce or consume lz4
compressed messages, you should install python-lz4 (pip install lz4).
To enable snappy compression/decompression install python-snappy (also requires snappy library).
See <http://kafka-python.readthedocs.org/en/master/install.html#optional-snappy-install>
for more information.

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