uuid

UUID (universally unique identifiers) as specified in RFC 4122.

The uuid module is accessible via the paste.script.util module.

This module provides the UUID class and the functions uuid1(), uuid3(), uuid4(), uuid5() for generating version 1, 3, 4, and 5 UUIDs respectively.

This module works with Python 2.3 or higher.

Attributes

a NAMESPACE_DNS

UUID('{6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8}')

a NAMESPACE_OID

UUID('{6ba7b812-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8}')

a NAMESPACE_URL

UUID('{6ba7b811-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8}')

a NAMESPACE_X500

UUID('{6ba7b814-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8}')

a RESERVED_FUTURE

'reserved for future definition'

a RESERVED_MICROSOFT

'reserved for Microsoft compatibility'

a RESERVED_NCS

'reserved for NCS compatibility'

a RFC_4122

'specified in RFC 4122'

Functions

f unixgetaddr(program) ...

Get the hardware address on a Unix machine.

f wingetaddr(program) ...

Get the hardware address on a Windows machine.

f getaddr() ...

Get the hardware address as a 48-bit integer.

f uuid1() ...

Generate a UUID based on the time and hardware address.

f uuid3(namespace, name) ...

Generate a UUID from the MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name.

f uuid4() ...

Generate a random UUID.

f uuid5(namespace, name) ...

Generate a UUID from the SHA-1 hash of a namespace UUID and a name.

Classes

C UUID(...) ...

Instances of the UUID class represent UUIDs as specified in RFC 4122. Converting a UUID to a string using str() produces a string in the form "{12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc}". The UUID constructor accepts a similar string (braces and hyphens optional), or six integer arguments (with 32-bit, 16-bit, 16-bit, 8-bit, 8-bit, and 48-bit values respectively). UUID objects have the following attributes:

bytes gets or sets the UUID as a 16-byte string

urn gets the UUID as a URN as specified in RFC 4122

variant gets or sets the UUID variant as one of the constants
RESERVED_NCS, RFC_4122, RESERVED_MICROSOFT, RESERVED_FUTURE

version gets or sets the UUID version number (1 through 5)

This class contains 13 members.

See the source for more information.