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The install procedure is at https://pypi.org/project/confluent-kafka/, and is done with the usual installation tools. The following stub program is built with the confluent python client. It should work with the server:port set to lasair.roe.ac.uk:9092
or lasair-dev.roe.ac.uk:9092
.import sys
from confluent_kafka import Consumer, KafkaError
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