uuid-utils 0.2.0

Drop-in replacement for Python UUID in Rust

Python UUID Utils

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Python UUID implementation using Rust's UUID library. This will make uuid4 function around 10x faster.

This package can be a drop-in replacement to the standard library UUID which implements existing UUID versions like V4 in Rust and also adds draft UUID versions like V6.

Avaialble UUID versions:

• uuid1 - Version 1 UUIDs using a timestamp and monotonic counter.
• uuid3 - Version 3 UUIDs based on the MD5 hash of some data.
• uuid4 - Version 4 UUIDs with random data.
• uuid5 - Version 5 UUIDs based on the SHA1 hash of some data.
• uuid6 - Version 6 UUIDs using a timestamp and monotonic counter.
• uuid7 - Version 7 UUIDs using a Unix timestamp ordered by time.
• uuid8 - Version 8 UUIDs using user-defined data.

^{Please note that UUID versions 6, 7 and 8 are still in draft RFC.}

Installation

$ pip install uuid-utils

Example

>>> import uuid_utils as uuid

>>> # make a random UUID
>>> uuid.uuid4()
UUID('ffe95fcc-b818-4aca-a350-e0a35b9de6ec')

>>> # make a random UUID using a Unix timestamp which is time-ordered.
>>> uuid.uuid7()
UUID('16ada4b8-b7b1-4e6c-b857-012bc678552b')

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

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

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Min	Max	Mean	Min (+)	Max (+)	Mean (+)
UUID V1	0.058	0.059	0.058	0.005 (12.0x)	0.005 (11.9x)	0.005 (12.0x)
UUID V4	0.041	0.041	0.041	0.004 (11.1x)	0.004 (10.8x)	0.004 (10.9x)
UUID V5	0.064	0.066	0.065	0.008 (8.1x)	0.008 (8.1x)	0.008 (8.1x)
UUID from hex	0.024	0.025	0.024	0.004 (6.7x)	0.004 (6.6x)	0.004 (6.6x)
UUID from bytes	0.024	0.025	0.024	0.004 (6.7x)	0.004 (6.6x)	0.004 (6.7x)
UUID from int	0.024	0.025	0.024	0.004 (6.6x)	0.004 (6.7x)	0.004 (6.6x)

Limitations

• The getnode function is not available.
• The uuid1 and uuid6 take node argument as mandatory.
• The uuid3 function is not available.