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authorDana Powers <dana.powers@gmail.com>2016-01-26 20:35:22 -0800
committerDana Powers <dana.powers@gmail.com>2016-01-26 21:51:29 -0800
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@@ -102,8 +102,9 @@ Compression
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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.