> Are there any workable non-proxy solution for Python applications? >
Not really. You can use jython which works well. > Is anyone interested in working on a non-Java client? Sure, but the client library is a non-trivial bit of code. It transparently does the following: 1) reads zookeeper 2) reads the root table(t) 3) reads the metadata table 4) reads the tablets of interest 5) while tablets split, balance and fail
