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-rw-r--r--kafka/producer/simple.py6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kafka/producer/simple.py b/kafka/producer/simple.py
index 17e0977..2699cf2 100644
--- a/kafka/producer/simple.py
+++ b/kafka/producer/simple.py
@@ -70,10 +70,12 @@ class SimpleProducer(Producer):
def send_messages(self, topic, *msg):
if not isinstance(topic, six.binary_type):
- raise TypeError("topic must be type bytes")
+ topic = topic.encode('utf-8')
partition = self._next_partition(topic)
- return super(SimpleProducer, self).send_messages(topic, partition, *msg)
+ return super(SimpleProducer, self).send_messages(
+ topic, partition, *msg
+ )
def __repr__(self):
return '<SimpleProducer batch=%s>' % self.async