python: how to convert a valid uuid from String to UUID?

Question

I receive the data as

   {
        \"name\": \"Unknown\",
        \"parent\": \"Uncategorized\",
        \"uuid\": \"06335e84-2872-4914-8c5d-3ed07d2a2f16\"
             


        

Answer 1

If the above answer didn't work for you for converting a valid UUID in string format back to an actual UUID object... using uuid.UUID(your_uuid_string) worked for me.

In [6]: import uuid
   ...:
   ...: o = {
   ...:     "name": "Unknown",
   ...:     "parent": "Uncategorized",
   ...:     "uuid": "06335e84-2872-4914-8c5d-3ed07d2a2f16"
   ...: }
   ...:
   ...: print uuid.UUID(o['uuid']).hex
   ...: print type(uuid.UUID(o['uuid']).hex)
06335e84287249148c5d3ed07d2a2f16


In [7]: your_uuid_string = uuid.UUID(o['uuid']).hex

In [8]: print uuid.UUID(your_uuid_string)
06335e84-2872-4914-8c5d-3ed07d2a2f16

In [9]: print type(uuid.UUID(your_uuid_string))