[emmett9001]

Sounds like old news, but if this is still an issue, PyKafka does allow balanced reads across a consumer group. https://github.com/parsely/pykafka

[czinck]

Yeah, it's no longer relevant for that project, but I like the ideas behind Kafka and will probably use it again so I'll look at PyKafka before I look at kafka-python in the future.