uuid generator

[Marcello Pietrobon]

Hello,
I need to read newly generated uuid from Python
but I am not sure if
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/163604

is the right code

Maybe there is already the library in Python 2.3

Maybe I can use the one generated with
uuidgen
under cygwin
but this would not be portable

In this last case I would like to know how can I capture the output of
uuidgen
so I can use it in my script

Thank you if you know the answer !

Cheers,
Marcello

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Marcello Pietrobon <te*****@attglobal.net> (MP) wrote:

MP> Hello,
MP> I need to read newly generated uuid from Python
MP> but I am not sure if
MP> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/163604

MP> is the right code

There's another one at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/213761
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[Thomas Heller]

Piet van Oostrum <pi**@cs.uu.nl> writes:

>> Marcello Pietrobon <te*****@attglobal.net> (MP) wrote:

MP> Hello,
MP> I need to read newly generated uuid from Python
MP> but I am not sure if
MP> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/163604

MP> is the right code

There's another one at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/213761

I posted ctypes code which wraps libuuid.so on linux, a while ago.
And someone else in the same thread posted a C wrapper.

<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=isv9eomw.fsf%40python.net>

Thomas