uuid

UUID objects (universally unique identifiers) according to RFC 4122.

import uuid

Constants

Name	Type	Description
NAMESPACE_DNS	UUID	The namespace UUID for fully qualified domain names.
NAMESPACE_URL	UUID	The namespace UUID for URLs.
NAMESPACE_OID	UUID	The namespace UUID for ISO object identifiers.
NAMESPACE_X500	UUID	The namespace UUID for X.500 distinguished names.

Functions

uuid.uuid4() -> UUID

Generate a random version 4 UUID.

uuid.uuid1() -> UUID

Generate a time-based version 1 UUID.

uuid.uuid3(namespace_uuid: UUID, name: str) -> UUID

Generate a name-based version 3 UUID using MD5.

uuid.uuid5(namespace_uuid: UUID, name: str) -> UUID

Generate a name-based version 5 UUID using SHA-1.

UUID

Represents a UUID value with Python uuid.UUID-style properties.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
hex	str	Get the UUID as 32 lowercase hexadecimal digits.
int	int64	Get the leading 64 bits of the UUID as an integer.
uuid_bytes	bytes	Get the UUID as 16 RFC 4122 bytes.
version	int	Get the UUID version number.
variant	str	Get the UUID variant description.
urn	str	Get the UUID as a URN string.
time_low	int64	Get the low 32 bits of the time field.
time_mid	int	Get the middle 16 bits of the time field.
time_hi_version	int	Get the high time field including the version bits.
clock_seq_hi_variant	int	Get the high clock sequence byte including the variant bits.
clock_seq_low	int	Get the low clock sequence byte.
node	int64	Get the 48-bit node value.

__str__() -> str

repr() uses the same method. Return the canonical hexadecimal string representation of the UUID.