Will Maier wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:03:23PM -0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [...] >> 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 > Jesus Christ! What in all the world *doesn't* Python do already?!
Can't we now just write up a module for the standard lib that takes care of writing all the other code as well and just forget about getting our hands dirty with programming altogether? /W (just in case: ;)!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
