Generate unique hashes for django models

Question

I want to use unique hashes for each model rather than ids.

I implemented the following function to use it across the board easily.

import random,hashlib         


        

Answer 1

Django 1.8+ has a built-in UUIDField. Here's the suggested implementation, using the standard library's uuid module, from the docs:

import uuid
from django.db import models

class MyUUIDModel(models.Model):
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4, editable=False)
    # other fields

For older django versions you can use the django-uuidfield package.