A universally unique identifier, is essentially a shorter version of a UUID and is commonly used to identify records in various applications.
When writing a web application, often times we would like to keep the URLs short.
http://localhost/posts/5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV
This certainly gives a more concise look than the following.
http://localhost/posts/b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865
kuid can be installed via pypi.
pip install kuid
The following section describes a basic usage of base62.
>>> import uuid
>>> import kuid
>>>
>>> kuid.encode(uuid.UUID('b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865'))
'5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV'
>>>
>>> kuid.decode('5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV')
UUID('b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865')
It also has wrappers around basic uuid functions
>>> import kuid
>>>
>>> kuid.kuid1()
'47ZU06aw8pUWT5BzmVHsST'
>>> kuid.kuid4()
'60fq4TTss8KYXlT2yJy3AQ'
FAQs
Library to shorten UUIDs
We found that kuid demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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