Can I use poll and iterate in kafka-python together?

[IowaIowa]

I am working with kafka-python. I would like to fetch big amount data from kafka topic till its empty. Then do some action. Then start consuming online new events from that topic. My kafka-python implementation:

consumer = KafkaConsumer(
    'my-topic',
    bootstrap_servers = [my-bootstrap-server],
    auto_offset_reset = 'earliest',
    enable_auto_commit = False,
    value_deserializer = lambda x: json.loads(x.decode('utf-8'))
)
while True:
    x = consumer.poll(timeout_ms = 5 * 1000, max_records = 1000)
    if not x: break
    // some action with x
// consune new events
for y in consumer:
    // some action with y

New events are not so often so the 5s poll timeout is ok. Is this design ok? Or there are drawbacks? In the documentation for poll I can see that it is incompatible with iterator interface..

[OneCricketeer]

You can dump a consumer into your own list object, but you may want to check the topic's high watermark before you start, rather than rely on the consumer to end for checking "emptiness"