python kafka消费者超时参数_如何在程序中停止Python Kafka Consumer？

I am doing Python Kafka consumer (trying to use kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer or kafka.consumer.simple.SimpleConsumer in http://kafka-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/apidoc/kafka.consumer.html). When I run the following piece of code, it will run all the time, even if all messages consumed. I hope the consumer will stop if it consume all the messages. How to do it? Also I have no idea how to use stop() function (which is in base class kafka.consumer.base.Consumer).

UPDATE

I used signal handler to call consumer.stop(). Some error messages were printed out to the screen. But the program still was stuck in the for-loop. When new messages came in, the consumer consumed them and printed them. I also tried client.close(). But the same result.

I need some ways to stop the for-loop gracefully.

client = KafkaClient("localhost:9092")

consumer = SimpleCons