Mark Grover
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Without importing the print_function, the lines later on like ```print("Usage: direct_kafka_wordcount.py <broker_list> <topic>", file=sys.stderr)``` fail when using python2.*. Import fixes that problem and doesn't break anything on python3 either. Author: Mark Grover <mark@apache.org> Closes #10872 from markgrover/python2_compat.