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authorLinus Wallgren <linus.wallgren@gmail.com>2017-05-18 22:49:20 +0200
committerDana Powers <dana.powers@gmail.com>2017-06-16 23:26:14 -0700
commit97261f491d02fb7f72ba30abcfc26240f520a9b4 (patch)
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Describe consumer thread-safety
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diff --git a/kafka/consumer/group.py b/kafka/consumer/group.py
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--- a/kafka/consumer/group.py
+++ b/kafka/consumer/group.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ class KafkaConsumer(six.Iterator):
to allow multiple consumers to load balance consumption of topics (requires
kafka >= 0.9.0.0).
+ The consumer is not thread safe and should not be shared across threads.
+
Arguments:
*topics (str): optional list of topics to subscribe to. If not set,
call :meth:`~kafka.KafkaConsumer.subscribe` or