python kafka start consuming from the end code example

Example: kafka get last offset of topic python

from kafka import SimpleClient
from kafka.protocol.offset import OffsetRequest, OffsetResetStrategy
from kafka.common import OffsetRequestPayload

client = SimpleClient(brokers)

partitions = client.topic_partitions[topic]
offset_requests = [OffsetRequestPayload(topic, p, -1, 1) for p in partitions.keys()]

offsets_responses = client.send_offset_request(offset_requests)

for r in offsets_responses:
    print "partition = %s, offset = %s"%(r.partition, r.offsets[0])