Kafka reading txt file as single letters rather than words

Question

I'm using the KafkaClient in python's pykafka. I'm trying to read a text file and produce its lines to a topic then read it by a consumer. However on running it only reads individual letters in the message not the words or the lines of the text file. What am I doing wrong?

my producer is

from pykafka import KafkaClient

text = open('filename.txt','r').read()
text = text.split()
client = KafkaClient(hosts='localhost:9099')
topic = client.topics['topic']
producer = topic.get_sync_producer()
for i in text:
     producer.produce(i.encode('ascii'))

my consumer is

from pykafka import KafkaClient
client = KafkaClient(hosts='localhost:9099')
topic = client.topics['topic']
consumer = topic.get_simple_consumer()
for message in consumer:
    if message is not None:
        print(message.offset, message.value.decode())

Would appreciate some pointers. I'm wondering if this is the best way to read a text file and run it through kafka.

Answer 1

I got the desired output by switching libraries to the kafka libraries.

Producer

from kafka import KafkaProducer

producer = 
KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers='localhost:9099')

with open('filename.txt') 
as f:
    for line in f:
      
     producer.send('topic',line.encode('ascii'))

 producer.flush()
 producer.close()

Consumer

from kafka import KafkaConsumer

consumer = 

KafkaConsumer('topic',bootstrap_servers='localhost:9099')

for msg in consumer:
    print(msg.value.decode())