Using time is very common eg _.str(_.int(ZopeTime)), or I did a HowTo on using FSCounter to do this: http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/FSCounter/unique_ids -- Andy McKay. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Moore" <tmoore@tembel.org> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:55 PM Subject: [Zope] Unique ID generation
I'm writing a simple ZClass (and a second ZClass which contains the first) and I would like the constructor for this class to be able to auto-generate unique IDs for the instances rather than making the owner choose one. What I've tried isn't working, but I don't really know what I'm doing here...I figure this must be a fairly common problem, so what is the best way to handle it? The ID needs only be unique within its container object (i.e., doesn't have to be globally unique). I have full control over the container class, so solutions involving setting properties on that class are OK.
TIA, -- Tim Moore
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