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How to create GUID UUID like with pythoncom.CreateGuid

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Wed Dec 20 20:38:45 EST 2000 
In article <3a4136bb.2555949 at 192.168.0.1>,
Georg Gogo. BERNHARD <gogo at bluedynamics.com> wrote:
>
>The algorithm should be platform independend which means that  a
>python only solution is needed. I am starting to think that that is
>impossible without extending python with some C / C++ functions that
>have to be compiled on every platform they are needed, because the MAC
>adress of a compuiter is part of the GUID, and there is no way to get
>it in python.

I think it does need to be a C extension.  Microsoft is simply using the
OSF DCE GUID/UUID spec.  While there are ways of creating a GUID in the
absence of a MAC (for machines without a network card), I'd suggest that
it probably makes more sense to just rip off the standard algorithm if
you can find it.  There may be a GNU library somewhere.
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