kafka-python is compatible with (and tested against) broker versions 0.10 through 0.8.0 . kafka-python is not compatible with the 0.8.2-beta release.
kafka-python is tested on python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and pypy.
Builds and tests via Travis-CI. See https://travis-ci.org/dpkp/kafka-python