How to make a GUID with plain python

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <91voot$cs5$1 at violet.singnet.com.sg>,
Ng Pheng Siong <ngps at post1.com> wrote:
>According to Georg Gogo. BERNHARD <gogo at bluedynamics.com>:
>> I am looking for a way to create a global unique identifier / UUID
>> with python...
>
>Here's an expired I-D describing "the UUID formats and various ways
>of generating them".
>
>    http://www.shore.net/~rsalz/uuid-i-d.txt

That appears to have moved to
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2552x/uuid-i-d.txt

(I was curious to see whether "~rsalz" was Rich Salz.)
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