boodebr: boodebr.util.guid

Module boodebr.util.guid

boodebr : boodebr.util : boodebr.util.guid

Creation of globally unique IDs.

This is a simple module for generating unique IDs, along the same lines as a GUID, but not matching any specific standard.

Example:

from boodebr.util import makeGUID
print "A new GUID",makeGUID('some string')

Functions

makeGUID(seed='')

Create a new unique identifier (40-character string of [0-9a-f]). Will be sufficiently random so you can assume it is unique.

Inputs

seed: Used to provide extra randomness to the GUID. The GUID is NOT in any way tied to this seed.

Returns GUID (string)