How to create a GUID/UUID in Python

Question

How do I create a GUID in Python that is platform independent? I hear there is a method using ActivePython on Windows but it\'s Windows only because it uses COM. Is there a

Answer 1

Check this post, helped me a lot. In short, the best option for me was:

import random 
import string 

# defining function for random 
# string id with parameter 
def ran_gen(size, chars=string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits): 
    return ''.join(random.choice(chars) for x in range(size)) 

# function call for random string 
# generation with size 8 and string  
print (ran_gen(8, "AEIOSUMA23")) 

Because I needed just 4-6 random characters instead of bulky GUID.