uuid

Module uuid provides generation of the different flavors of UUIDs. The generated UUIDs are returned as strings.

Functions

Function signature

v4() string

Returns a randomly generated v4 UUID.

Example

>>> uuid.v4()
"83650166-58e3-4077-91a1-f176199f4954"

Function signature

v5(namespace, name string) string

Returns a UUID based on SHA-1 hash of the namespace UUID and name.

Example

>>> uuid.v5("c54e4fe3-ced2-4d07-a373-a95da134685e", "test")
"cd0c3ed6-1143-5e9f-bdc7-dd32215bb7ea"