Open post Riccardo Magliocchetti @rmistaken@hachyderm.io · 12mo ago Replying to @dpprdan@mas.to @rmistaken @mborus Is there a backport available? @dpprdan @mborus when I researched this there wasn't, I'm using https://pypi.org/project/uuid-utils pypi.org Client Challenge
Open post Riccardo Magliocchetti @rmistaken@hachyderm.io · 12mo ago Replying to @mborus@mastodon.social <p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TIL</span></a> about UUID7 (mainly because it's now supported in the new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>python</span></a> 3.14). Until today I thought, why bother, uuid4 is fine.</p><p>Turns out, UUID7 comes with a free timestamp and the generated ids sort by time. </p><p>Read about it here<br /><a href="https://uuid7.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">uuid7.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And it's available as a library for older python versions, too. <a href="https://pypi.org/project/uuid7/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pypi.org/project/uuid7/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I have a few projects where I use UUID4 for temporary files - I'm going to move these over to UUID7</p> @mborus fyi that uuid7 package is not compliant with latest spec and not a backport of the upstream implementation
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