GUID Generators for non-Windows systems?

[Michael Hudson]

Mike Fletcher <mfletch at tpresence.com> writes:

> I've been looking at using GUID generators in a project, they work fine for
> Win32 systems (where I use pythoncom.CreateGUID() then convert to a long
> integer), but I haven't been able to locate a cross platform library for
> generating the IDs.  Realistically, I only need Linux, Mac and Win32, but
> would prefer something easily portable.

I have a proggie called "uuidgen" that's part of "e2fsprogs" on my
redhat 6.1 box.  Maybe you can find the source, or just call os.system
for it?

Cheers,
M.

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