Good way to generate a GUID in an application?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good way to generate a GUID in the Google engine for python. I feel that there is an easy way to use people, what would you suggest.

Answer 1

The uuid module must be available.

Why do you need uuids? They are usually needed to make truly unique primary keys, but the GAE data warehouse, in essence, should take care of this for you.

Answer 2

Sample code using the uuid module:

from uuid import uuid4 print(uuid4()) # Output: 7d720c5a-b3e9-455e-961c-0e37b330b098 

Answer 3

 import uuid print(uuid.uuid4().hex) 

Answer 4

Assuming the module is available in the Google App Engine, check out the Python uuid module.

Answer 5

Is it likely that they are for things that you store in the data warehouse?

If so, I believe object.key is a GUID