kafka.common.OffsetOutOfRangeError: FetchResponse(topic='earthshaker_nginx_access', partition=0, error=1, highwaterMark=-1, messages=<generator object _decode_message_set_iter at 0x7fb7cb243c30>)

[wangxiangyu]

hi
I used SimpleConsumer to consume log and I set auto_commit=False. After a period of time, I init a new consumer, the new consumer uses the init offsets: {0: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0, 3: 0, 4: 0, 5: 0}. But I think the 0 offset data has been deleted caused by the rotation in kafka. So this error "kafka.common.OffsetOutOfRangeError: FetchResponse(topic='earthshaker_nginx_access', partition=0, error=1, highwaterMark=-1, messages=<generator object _decode_message_set_iter at 0x7fb7cb243c30>)" happened.
(1) how can I get the correct offset?
(2)I do not want to use the group characher of SimpleConsumer, I want each consumer to consume log separately. So I set auto_commit to false ,use the same group name and each consumer record its own offset. Any other ideas?
Thank you!~

[dpkp]

dup of #263 -- please see discussion there!