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@@ -102,8 +102,9 @@ Compression *********** kafka-python supports gzip compression/decompression natively. To produce or -consume snappy and lz4 compressed messages, you must install `lz4` (`lz4-cffi` -if using pypy) and/or `python-snappy` (also requires snappy library). +consume lz4 compressed messages, you must install lz4tools and xxhash (modules +may not work on python2.6). To enable snappy compression/decompression install +python-snappy (also requires snappy library). See `Installation <http://kafka-python.readthedocs.org/en/master/install.html#optional-snappy-install>`_ for more information. |