[Zope] GUID Equivalent in Zope?

[Andy McKay]

http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/GUID

"Ever had to generate unique ids? If you are running on Windows one 
simple answer is the GUID generation system from Microsoft"

Philip Kilner wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We need to be able to add a system-generated unique key string to a 
> record entered into an RDBMS via a Zope application. The same database 
> is also accessed by an ASP application which uses GUIDs for this 
> function: -
> 
> - Is there something similar to a GUID generator in Zope?
> 
> - If so, would it be practical to actually generate this string in the 
> same format as MS GUIDs (I know they look horrible, but an trying to 
> keep equivalence between the ASP-powered functions and the Zope-powered 
> functions)?
> 
> FWIW, the Zope application is on Win32, so perhaps we could get Windows 
> to generate us a GUID?
> 
> Thanks in anticipation for any input!
> 
> 
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