[Zope-dev] Globally unique id's in Zope in a new way

[Pavlos Christoforou]

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