[Zope] Unique ID generation

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:16:39 -0800


Using time is very common eg _.str(_.int(ZopeTime)), or I did a HowTo on
using FSCounter to do this:
http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/FSCounter/unique_ids
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Moore" <tmoore@tembel.org>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: [Zope] Unique ID generation


> I'm writing a simple ZClass (and a second ZClass which contains the
> first) and I would like the constructor for this class to be able to
> auto-generate unique IDs for the instances rather than making the
> owner choose one.  What I've tried isn't working, but I don't really
> know what I'm doing here...I figure this must be a fairly common
> problem, so what is the best way to handle it?  The ID needs only be
> unique within its container object (i.e., doesn't have to be globally
> unique).  I have full control over the container class, so solutions
> involving setting properties on that class are OK.
>
> TIA,
> --
> Tim Moore
>
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