Confluent Python Client - undefined symbol: rd_kafka_msg_partitioner_consistent

[Rendy Bambang Junior]

hi all, in my machine I tried to use conlfuent kafka python like this

first, I installed confluent kafka python

`sudo pip install confluent-kafka`

then I tried to use it. somehow I always get this error message

`>>> from confluent_kafka import Producer

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/confluent_kafka/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>

    from .cimpl import *

ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/confluent_kafka/cimpl.so: undefined symbol: rd_kafka_msg_partitioner_consistent`

I guess it is because of librdkafka is not there, then I do git clone and make & install. but the error still appears

I also tried to git clone confluent-kafka-python instead of installing from apt-get, but it is still error

how to solve this problem?

[Magnus Edenhill]

Hi,

as a reference to future readers this was handled in the following issue:

https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python/issues/54

The root problem was caused by having an old librdkafka version installed,

replacing the old version with librdkafka >=0.9.1 solved the issue.

/Magnus