safe enough 8-character short unique random string

Question

I am trying to compute 8-character short unique random filenames for, let\'s say, thousands of files without probable name collision. Is this method safe enough?

Answer 1

You can try the shortuuid library.

Install with : pip install shortuuid

Then it is as simple as :

> import shortuuid
> shortuuid.uuid()
'vytxeTZskVKR7C7WgdSP3d'