uu is:module

Uuencoding is notoriously badly specified. This implementation aims at being compatible with the GNU Sharutils (http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/). Just like Base64 encoding uuencoding expands blocks of 3 bytes into blocks of 4 bytes. There is however no well defined ending to a piece of encoded data, instead uuencoded data is commonly transferred linewise where each line is prepended with the length of the data in the line. This module currently only deals with the encoding. Chopping the encoded data into lines, and unchopping lines into encoded data is left as an exercise to the reader. (Patches are welcome.)

This library is useful for comparing, parsing and printing Universally Unique Identifiers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID for the general idea. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122 for the specification.

• Use nextRandom to generate secure random UUIDs, and your favorite instance of Random for faster but insecure generation of UUIDs.
• We have an implementation of generating a UUID from the hardware MAC address and current system time in Data.UUID.V1.
• For name-based generation of UUIDs using SHA-1 hashing see Data.UUID.V5.

The uuid-ossp extension provides functions for constructing UUIDs. For an example of usage, see the documentation for PgExtensionEntity.

Generate, parse, and pretty print UUIDs for use with IPython.

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