Some minor updates to usage docs

docs/usage.rst

@@ -9,21 +9,24 @@ SimpleProducer
     from kafka import SimpleProducer, KafkaClient
 
     # To send messages synchronously
-    kafka = KafkaClient("localhost:9092")
+    kafka = KafkaClient('localhost:9092')
     producer = SimpleProducer(kafka)
 
-    # Note that the application is responsible for encoding messages to type str
-    producer.send_messages("my-topic", "some message")
-    producer.send_messages("my-topic", "this method", "is variadic")
+    # Note that the application is responsible for encoding messages to type bytes
+    producer.send_messages(b'my-topic', b'some message')
+    producer.send_messages(b'my-topic', b'this method', b'is variadic')
 
     # Send unicode message
-    producer.send_messages("my-topic", u'你怎么样?'.encode('utf-8'))
+    producer.send_messages(b'my-topic', u'你怎么样?'.encode('utf-8'))
+
+Asynchronous Mode
+-----------------
+
+.. code:: python
 
     # To send messages asynchronously
-    # WARNING: current implementation does not guarantee message delivery on failure!
-    # messages can get dropped! Use at your own risk! Or help us improve with a PR!
     producer = SimpleProducer(kafka, async=True)
-    producer.send_messages("my-topic", "async message")
+    producer.send_messages(b'my-topic', b'async message')
 
     # To wait for acknowledgements
     # ACK_AFTER_LOCAL_WRITE : server will wait till the data is written to
@@ -32,13 +35,12 @@ SimpleProducer
     #                            by all in sync replicas before sending a response
     producer = SimpleProducer(kafka, async=False,
                               req_acks=SimpleProducer.ACK_AFTER_LOCAL_WRITE,
-                              ack_timeout=2000)
+                              ack_timeout=2000,
+                              sync_fail_on_error=False)
 
-    response = producer.send_messages("my-topic", "another message")
-
-    if response:
-        print(response[0].error)
-        print(response[0].offset)
+    responses = producer.send_messages(b'my-topic', b'another message')
+    for r in responses:
+        logging.info(r.offset)
 
     # To send messages in batch. You can use any of the available
     # producers for doing this. The following producer will collect
@@ -56,16 +58,21 @@ Keyed messages
 
 .. code:: python
 
-    from kafka import (KafkaClient, KeyedProducer, HashedPartitioner,
-                       RoundRobinPartitioner)
+    from kafka import (
+        KafkaClient, KeyedProducer,
+        Murmur2Partitioner, RoundRobinPartitioner)
 
-    kafka = KafkaClient("localhost:9092")
+    kafka = KafkaClient('localhost:9092')
 
-    # HashedPartitioner is default
+    # HashedPartitioner is default (currently uses python hash())
     producer = KeyedProducer(kafka)
-    producer.send_messages("my-topic", "key1", "some message")
-    producer.send_messages("my-topic", "key2", "this methode")
+    producer.send_messages(b'my-topic', b'key1', b'some message')
+    producer.send_messages(b'my-topic', b'key2', b'this methode')
 
+    # Murmur2Partitioner attempts to mirror the java client hashing
+    producer = KeyedProducer(kafka, partitioner=Murmur2Partitioner)
+
+    # Or just produce round-robin (or just use SimpleProducer)
     producer = KeyedProducer(kafka, partitioner=RoundRobinPartitioner)
 
 
@@ -78,9 +85,9 @@ KafkaConsumer
     from kafka import KafkaConsumer
 
     # To consume messages
-    consumer = KafkaConsumer("my-topic",
-                             group_id="my_group",
-                             bootstrap_servers=["localhost:9092"])
+    consumer = KafkaConsumer('my-topic',
+                             group_id='my_group',
+                             bootstrap_servers=['localhost:9092'])
     for message in consumer:
         # message value is raw byte string -- decode if necessary!
         # e.g., for unicode: `message.value.decode('utf-8')`
@@ -88,8 +95,6 @@ KafkaConsumer
                                              message.offset, message.key,
                                              message.value))
 
-    kafka.close()
-
 
 messages (m) are namedtuples with attributes:
 
@@ -121,16 +126,16 @@ messages (m) are namedtuples with attributes:
       # so it can be included in the next commit
       #
       # **messages that are not marked w/ task_done currently do not commit!
-      kafka.task_done(m)
+      consumer.task_done(m)
 
     # If auto_commit_enable is False, remember to commit() periodically
-    kafka.commit()
+    consumer.commit()
 
     # Batch process interface
     while True:
       for m in kafka.fetch_messages():
         process_message(m)
-        kafka.task_done(m)
+        consumer.task_done(m)
 
 
   Configuration settings can be passed to constructor,
@@ -162,13 +167,13 @@ Multiprocess consumer
 
     from kafka import KafkaClient, MultiProcessConsumer
 
-    kafka = KafkaClient("localhost:9092")
+    kafka = KafkaClient('localhost:9092')
 
     # This will split the number of partitions among two processes
-    consumer = MultiProcessConsumer(kafka, "my-group", "my-topic", num_procs=2)
+    consumer = MultiProcessConsumer(kafka, b'my-group', b'my-topic', num_procs=2)
 
     # This will spawn processes such that each handles 2 partitions max
-    consumer = MultiProcessConsumer(kafka, "my-group", "my-topic",
+    consumer = MultiProcessConsumer(kafka, b'my-group', b'my-topic',
                                     partitions_per_proc=2)
 
     for message in consumer:
@@ -186,14 +191,14 @@ Low level
     from kafka.protocol import KafkaProtocol
     from kafka.common import ProduceRequest
 
-    kafka = KafkaClient("localhost:9092")
+    kafka = KafkaClient('localhost:9092')
 
-    req = ProduceRequest(topic="my-topic", partition=1,
-        messages=[create_message("some message")])
+    req = ProduceRequest(topic=b'my-topic', partition=1,
+        messages=[create_message(b'some message')])
     resps = kafka.send_produce_request(payloads=[req], fail_on_error=True)
     kafka.close()
 
-    resps[0].topic      # "my-topic"
+    resps[0].topic      # b'my-topic'
     resps[0].partition  # 1
     resps[0].error      # 0 (hopefully)
     resps[0].offset     # offset of the first message sent in this request