Question: Do we have some kafka tools ?

[Jiayi-Liao]

I am trying to use kafka-python to inspect a topic's basic information such as partitions,
but I am not sure that the module can help me because I didn't see any instructions.
I am using kafka-python 1.3.3.

Is there any way that can help me do this with python instead of using command line ?
kafka-topics --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
kafka-run-class kafka.tools.GetOffsetShell --broker-list localhost:9092 -topic vital_signs --time -1

[tvoinarovskyi]

I think what you really want is #935, but we still did not work on that.

[jeffwidman]

It's been a little while since I looked at the protocol low-level primitives, but I suspect you can get this by reaching deep into the kafka-python's internals and using KafkaClient to do explicit sending/receiving of protocol structs.

But as @tvoinarovskyi said what you really want is #935