kuid 0.1.2

Library to shorten UUIDs

kuid

A universally unique identifier, is essentially a shorter version of a UUID and is commonly used to identify records in various applications.

Rationale

When writing a web application, often times we would like to keep the URLs short.

http://localhost/posts/5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV

This certainly gives a more concise look than the following.

http://localhost/posts/b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865

Installation

kuid can be installed via pypi.

pip install kuid

Usuage

The following section describes a basic usage of base62.

import uuid
import kuid

kuid.encode(uuid.UUID('b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865'))
'5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV'

>>> kuid.decode('5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV')
UUID('b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865')

Credits

• https://dev.to/sonus21/kuid-compressed-universally-unique-identifier-384i
• https://github.com/suminb/base62