[Python-Dev] UUID module (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Jun 10 17:50:09 CEST 2006

At 08:22 AM 6/10/2006 -0500, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

Finally, Phillip brought up PEAK: > PEAK's uuid module does this such that if win32all is present, > you get a Windows GUID, or if you have a FreeBSD 5+ or > NetBSD 2+ kernel you use the local platform uuidgen API. See e.g.:

...so i looked at PEAK's getnodeid48() routine and borrowed the Win32 calls from there, with a comment giving attribution to PEAK.

There appears to be a transcription error, there; the second win32 import isn't covered by a try/except and the ImportError seems to have disappeared as well.

Also, for Python 2.5, these imports could probably be replaced with a ctypes call, though I'm not experienced enough w/ctypes to figure out what the call should be.

Similarly, for the _uuidgen module, you've not included the C source for that module or the setup.py incantations to build it. But again, it could probably be replaced by ctypes calls to uuidgen(2) on BSD-ish platforms.

I'll take a whack at addressing these once the code is in, though, unless there's a ctypes guru or two available...?

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