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

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Sun Jun 11 15:35:46 CEST 2006

Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev at zesty.ca> wrote:

Quite a few people have expressed interest in having UUID functionality in the standard library, and previously on this list some suggested possibly using the uuid.py module i wrote:

http://zesty.ca/python/uuid.py

Some comments on the code:

for dir in ['', r'c:\windows\system32', r'c:\winnt\system32']:

Can we get rid of these absolute paths? Something like this should suffice:

from ctypes import * buf = createstringbuffer(4096) windll.kernel32.GetSystemDirectoryA(buf, 4096) 17 buf.value.decode("mbcs") u'C:\WINNT\system32'

for function in functions: try: node = function() except: continue

This also hides typos and whatnot. I guess it's better if each function catches its own exceptions, and either return None or raise a common exception (like a class _GetNodeError(RuntimeError)) which is then caught.

Giovanni Bajo

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