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.
urn	str	Get the UUID as a URN string.