[KAFKA-162] Upgrade python producer to the new message format version

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: clients
• Assignee: Jay Kreps
• Reporter: Jay Kreps
• Due: 18/Oct/11
• Created: 18/Oct/11 22:17
• Updated: 19/Oct/11 22:15
• Resolved: 19/Oct/11 22:15

Description

The python producer is still on the old message format version (pre-compression). This can cause some issues when integrating with consumers that don't support this. It would be good to bump the python producer up to the current version.