generating uuids / guids

[Jon Perez]

The DCE/OSF uuids I see in Linux ('uuidgen' command)and the Windows
guids look like they are the same format.  They have the same number
of hex digits (although their generation methods may be different).
It would be good to have the same function interface for either.

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Why do you say that adding Windows GUID generation to non-Windows
> platforms would be Pythonic?  Yeesh.