uuid_utils 0.15.0a2

Fast, drop-in replacement for Python's uuid module, powered by Rust.

Python UUID Utils

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Fast, drop-in replacement for Python's uuid module, powered by Rust.

Available 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.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install uuid-utils

or, using conda:

conda install -c conda-forge 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('018afa4a-0d21-7e6c-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')

Compatibility with Python UUID

In some cases, for example if you are using Django, you might need UUID instances to be returned from the standard-library uuid, not a custom UUID class. In that case you can use the uuid_utils.compat which comes with a performance penalty in comparison with the uuid_utils default behaviour, but is still faster than the standard-library.

>>> import uuid_utils.compat as uuid

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

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Min	Max	Mean	Min (+)	Max (+)	Mean (+)
UUID v1	0.061	0.299	0.194	0.019 (3.3x)	0.019 (15.4x)	0.019 (10.1x)
UUID v3	0.267	0.307	0.293	0.035 (7.6x)	0.041 (7.5x)	0.039 (7.5x)
UUID v4	0.073	0.119	0.083	0.005 (15.2x)	0.005 (24.6x)	0.005 (17.1x)
UUID v5	0.058	0.189	0.146	0.008 (7.6x)	0.038 (5.0x)	0.016 (9.0x)
UUID v6	0.032	0.033	0.032	0.003 (10.1x)	0.003 (10.3x)	0.003 (10.1x)
UUID v7	0.063	0.063	0.063	0.004 (16.1x)	0.004 (16.0x)	0.004 (16.1x)
UUID from hex	0.128	0.139	0.135	0.016 (8.2x)	0.017 (8.0x)	0.016 (8.3x)
UUID from bytes	0.031	0.135	0.093	0.016 (2.0x)	0.016 (8.6x)	0.016 (5.9x)
UUID from int	0.027	0.102	0.043	0.003 (8.3x)	0.004 (25.0x)	0.003 (12.4x)
UUID from fields	0.031	0.162	0.077	0.005 (6.0x)	0.005 (30.6x)	0.005 (14.7x)

^{Benchmark results might vary in different environments, but in most cases the uuid_utils should outperform stdlib uuid.}

How to develop locally

make build
make test

Or:

maturin develop --release