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Re: Generate unique ID for URL

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2012-11-13 16:13 -0800
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Subject Re: Generate unique ID for URL
From Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com>

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> I want to create a URL-safe unique ID for URL's.
> What do you recommend? - Compression?
You can use base62 with a running counter, but then you'll need a (semi) centralized entity to come up with the next id.

You can see one implementation at http://bit.ly/PSJkHS (AppEngine environment).

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  Re: Generate unique ID for URL Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-11-13 16:13 -0800
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