From 209a8f28e6df2c5be8117b3bbb1b3188f1e29adc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dana Powers <dana.powers@rd.io>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:55:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] OffsetCommit metadata must be bytes

---
 kafka/consumer/kafka.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kafka/consumer/kafka.py b/kafka/consumer/kafka.py
index af59e7e..069ad06 100644
--- a/kafka/consumer/kafka.py
+++ b/kafka/consumer/kafka.py
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ class KafkaConsumer(object):
 
         # API supports storing metadata with each commit
         # but for now it is unused
-        metadata = ''
+        metadata = b''
 
         offsets = self._offsets.task_done
         commits = []