# uuid --- UUID objects according to 9562 — Example

> Here are some examples of typical usage of the !uuid module >>> # make a UUID based on the host ID and current time >>> uuid.uuid1() # doctest: +SKIP UUID('a8098c1a-f86e-11da-bd1a-00112444be1e') >>> # make a UUID using an MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name >>> uuid.uuid3(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'py

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Here are some examples of typical usage of the !uuid module

&gt;&gt;&gt; # make a UUID based on the host ID and current time &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.uuid1() # doctest: +SKIP UUID('a8098c1a-f86e-11da-bd1a-00112444be1e')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # make a UUID using an MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.uuid3(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org') UUID('6fa459ea-ee8a-3ca4-894e-db77e160355e')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # make a random UUID &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.uuid4() UUID('16fd2706-8baf-433b-82eb-8c7fada847da')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # make a UUID using a SHA-1 hash of a namespace UUID and a name &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org') UUID('886313e1-3b8a-5372-9b90-0c9aee199e5d')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # make a UUID from a string of hex digits (braces and hyphens ignored) &gt;&gt;&gt; x = uuid.UUID('{00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f}')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # convert a UUID to a string of hex digits in standard form &gt;&gt;&gt; str(x) '00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f'

&gt;&gt;&gt; # get the raw 16 bytes of the UUID &gt;&gt;&gt; x.bytes b'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f'

&gt;&gt;&gt; # make a UUID from a 16-byte string &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.UUID(bytes=x.bytes) UUID('00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # get the Nil UUID &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.NIL UUID('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # get the Max UUID &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.MAX UUID('ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # same as UUIDv1 but with fields reordered to improve DB locality &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.uuid6() # doctest: +SKIP UUID('1f0799c0-98b9-62db-92c6-a0d365b91053')

&gt;&gt;&gt; # get UUIDv7 creation (local) time as a timestamp in milliseconds &gt;&gt;&gt; u = uuid.uuid7() &gt;&gt;&gt; u.time # doctest: +SKIP 1743936859822

&gt;&gt;&gt; # get UUIDv7 creation (local) time as a datetime object &gt;&gt;&gt; import datetime as dt &gt;&gt;&gt; dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(u.time / 1000) # doctest: +SKIP datetime.datetime(...)

&gt;&gt;&gt; # make a UUID with custom blocks &gt;&gt;&gt; uuid.uuid8(0x12345678, 0x9abcdef0, 0x11223344) UUID('00001234-5678-8ef0-8000-000011223344')

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