When using send_messages with a topic name for the first time Kafka automatically creates the topic due to load_metadata_for_topics, however, metadata request fails because the newly created topic doesn't have a leader yet. Since decode_metadata_response ignores errors this translates to topic not having partitions and a later KeyError because topic is not in dictionaries as a result.

Is it possible to somehow handle LeaderNotAvailable by retrying several times and waiting for election when this happens?