Platform-independent GUID creation?

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Thu Dec 20 17:00:03 EST 2001


In article <AcVR7.19406$8N6.610690 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com>,
Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
>Does anyone have a readily-portable equivalent to the pythoncom.CreateGuid()
>function?

The problem is that the DCE/OSF GUID standard specifies using the MAC
address of the network card as part of a GUID.  There isn't a portable
way to get that, unfortunately.
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