How to validate list of UUID's AND return UUID Version?

Question

I\'m needing to both validate a list of UUID\'s as well as determine the version. For example, using https://www.beautifyconverter.com/uuid-validator.php and entering 25CCCA

Answer 1

def validate_uuid4(uuid_string):

    try:
        val = UUID(uuid_string, version=4)
    except ValueError:
        # If it's a value error, then the string 
        # is not a valid hex code for a UUID.
        return False

    return True

You can use the above function to go through your list of uuid string and it will tell you whether a particular string in the list if a valid version 4 uuid