How to request for metadatas conveniently?

[Jiayi-Liao]

It seems that kafka-python has only two main roles: KafkaConsumer and KafkaProducer, and we need to initialize one of them before our opreration. However, we don't want to be a consumer or a producer when we request for kafka metadata such as partition offsets for a specific topic. Have you considered adding a new role in kafka-python such as "metadata-tools" ?

[tvoinarovskyi]

So you need something like Admin tools, to only check that no partitions are lagging and such? If so, you can track our progress on #935. There's still no roadmap for it thou.