Good point - one way encoding would be fine.
Also this is performed millions of times so ideally efficient.
On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:34:03 AM UTC+11, John Gordon wrote:
> In <0692e6a2-343c-4eb0-be57-fe5c815ef...@googlegroups.com> Richard
> <richar...@gmail.com> writes:
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> > I want to create a URL-safe unique ID for URL's.
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> > Currently I use:
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> > url_id = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(url)
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> > >>> base64.urlsafe_b64encode('docs.python.org/library/uuid.html')
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> > 'ZG9jcy5weXRob24ub3JnL2xpYnJhcnkvdXVpZC5odG1s'
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> > I would prefer more concise ID's.
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> > What do you recommend? - Compression?
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> Does the ID need to contain all the information necessary to recreate the
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> original URL?
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>
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