On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jason Spisak wrote:
import md5, base64, time, string from urllib import quote from whrandom import choice def unique_id(self): id=md5.new() id.update(self.absolute_url()) id.update(str(time.time())) id=id.digest() id=string.strip(id) id=string.strip(base64.encodestring(id)) id=quote(id[:-2]) seq = string.hexdigits + string.lowercase + string.uppercase new_id = '' for l in id: if l == '/' or l == '%': new_id = new_id + choice(seq) else: new_id = new_id + l return new_id
If anyone has a more elegant solution I would love to set my tired eyes on it. ;-)
All my best,
Couldn't you use a combination of ZopeTime and a random integer in the range 1-10000000? The whrandom module is available to _ I believe. Pavlos