UniversalID

Generates unique id’s based on the current date/time

Features

• Unid includes a datetime stamp - your can extract the creation time from a Unid
• You can assign a custom prefix to your id, e.g. a country code
• Unid is case-insentitive
• Base 36 encoded (digits + letters from A-Z)
• Uses the _secrets_ library to generate cryptographically strong pseudo-random numbers
• Fully documented: https://universalid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• 100% coverage

Installation

Install the latest release from PyPI:

pip install universalid

Usage

The Unid class is available directly off the universalid package:

>>> from universalid import Unid
>>> Unid.create(prefix='DK')
'DKDQ2D6JCJXI2Q82J06X0PK16P34XDO0'

>>> unid = Unid.create()
>>> Unid.get_time( unid )
datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 20, 11, 36, 27, 756356)

Links

Useful links

• Nano Id collision calculator
• Universal ID in Lotus Notes

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: github.com/$project/$project/issues
• Source Code: https://github.com/majkilde/universalid.git

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.