"""Helpers to generate uuids.""" import random import uuid def uuid_v1mc_hex() -> str: """Generate a uuid1 with a random multicast MAC address. The uuid1 uses a random multicast MAC address instead of the real MAC address of the machine without the overhead of calling the getrandom() system call. This is effectively equivalent to PostgreSQL's uuid_generate_v1mc() function """ return uuid.uuid1(node=random.getrandbits(48) | (1 << 40)).hex