kafka-python: producer is not able to connect

Question

kafka-python (1.0.0) throws error while connecting to the broker. At the same time /usr/bin/kafka-console-producer and /usr/bin/kafka-console-consumer work fine.

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Answer 1

I had the same problem, and none of the solutions above worked. Then I read the exception messages and it seems it's mandatory to specify api_version, so

producer = KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers=['localhost:9092'],api_version=(0,1,0))

note: tuple (1,0,0) matching to kafka version 1.0.0

works fine (at least completes without exceptions, now have to convince it to accept messages ;) )