Create GUID with Python

The uuid module has been accepted as standard since python 2.5 and above.

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Generate a UUID from a host ID, sequence number, and the current time. If node is not given, getnode() is used to obtain the hardware address. If clock_seq is given, it is used as the sequence number; otherwise a random 14-bit sequence number is chosen.

Create a UUID based on host ID, sequence number, and current time. If node is not given, obtain the address of the hardware with getnode(). If clock_seq is given, write clock_seq as sequence number, otherwise create a random 14-bit

Generate a UUID based on the MD5 hash of a namespace identifier (which is a UUID) and a name (which is a string).

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Generate a random UUID.

Create a random UUID

Generate a UUID based on the SHA-1 hash of a namespace identifier (which is a UUID) and a name (which is a string).

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

>>> import uuid
>>> uuid.uuid4()
UUID('5361a11b-615c-42bf-9bdb-e2c3790ada14')