kafka-send: new python script to produce kafka messages HEAD main

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import argparse
+import kafka
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument('-s', '--server', default='localhost:9092', help='kafka bootstrap server (default localhost:9092)')
+parser.add_argument('topic', help='kafka topic')
+parser.add_argument('filename', help='file containing the message to be sent')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+with open(args.filename, 'r') as file:
+	msg = ''.join(file.readlines()).encode()
+
+producer = kafka.KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers=args.server)
+producer.send(args.topic, msg)
+producer.flush()