Generating a unique identifier

[Will Maier]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:03:23PM -0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> which is easy enough, but I thought I'd check if there was an existing 
> solution in the standard library that I missed. Also, for other 
> applications, I might want them to be rather less predictable.

2.5 includes the uuid module for RFC 4122 universally-unique IDs:

    http://docs.python.org/lib/module-uuid.html

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