def create_snappy_message(payloads, key=None):
    """
    Construct a Snappy Message containing multiple Messages

    The given payloads will be encoded, compressed, and sent as a single atomic
    message to Kafka.

    Arguments:
        payloads: list(bytes), a list of payload to send be sent to Kafka
        key: bytes, a key used for partition routing (optional)

    """
    message_set = KafkaProtocol._encode_message_set(
        [create_message(payload, pl_key) for payload, pl_key in payloads])

    snapped = snappy_encode(message_set)
    codec = ATTRIBUTE_CODEC_MASK & CODEC_SNAPPY

    return kafka.structs.Message(0, 0x00 | codec, key, snapped)
Construct a Snappy Message containing multiple Messages

    The given payloads will be encoded, compressed, and sent as a single atomic
    message to Kafka.

    Arguments:
        payloads: list(bytes), a list of payload to send be sent to Kafka
        key: bytes, a key used for partition routing (optional)