>>> import uuid

print uuid.uuid3(uuid.uuid1(), 'python.org')

>>> # make a UUID based on the host ID and current time

>>> uuid.uuid1()

UUID('a8098c1a-f86e-11da-bd1a-00112444be1e')

>>> # make a UUID using an MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name

>>> uuid.uuid3(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org')

UUID('6fa459ea-ee8a-3ca4-894e-db77e160355e')

>>> # make a random UUID

>>> uuid.uuid4()

UUID('16fd2706-8baf-433b-82eb-8c7fada847da')

>>> # make a UUID using a SHA- hash of a namespace UUID and a name

>>> uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org')

UUID('886313e1-3b8a-5372-9b90-0c9aee199e5d')

>>> # make a UUID from a string of hex digits (braces and hyphens ignored)

>>> x = uuid.UUID('{00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f}')

>>> # convert a UUID to a string of hex digits in standard form

>>> str(x)

'00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f'

>>> # get the raw  bytes of the UUID

>>> x.bytes

'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f'

>>> # make a UUID from a -byte string

>>> uuid.UUID(bytes=x.bytes)

UUID('00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f')