There really isn't one to do that. You'll have to do it yourself. Search for the ThreadSafeCounter product. A lot of products use the current date and time to generate a string of the timestamp. I for one use this: import string def generateRandomMessageId(length=10): pool=string.lowercase+string.uppercase id=[] for i in range(length): id.append(pool[randint(0,len(pool)-1)]) return string.join(id,'') in one of my products. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gitte Wange" <gitte@mmmanager.org> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: [Zope] Autogenerate id's

Hello,

I was wondering if any of you had created any scripts in order to create an auto-generated ID ?

Tried to find it in the archives, but found nothing :-(

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On 17 Jul 2001 15:57:40 +0200, Gitte Wange wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if any of you had created any scripts in order to create an auto-generated ID ?

Tried to find it in the archives, but found nothing :-(

Try Zope.org. There is a HowTo there.

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