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Asked: 2026-06-13T01:56:49+00:00

I’m trying to convert a unicode object to a UUID with the uuid module.

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I’m trying to convert a unicode object to a UUID with the uuid module. This is the code I’m using:

GUID = $unicode
GUID = uuid.UUID( GUID )
print 'should be an UUID object:'
print GUID

The problem is that GUID doesn’t convert…it just stays the same unicode even after running it through UUID(). Also, no error gets thrown. What is going on here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    From what I gather, your problem is that you get the UUID as a string. This is because you are using print, which runs str() on an object. Try print(repr(some_uuid)).

    >>> some_uuid = uuid.UUID("3F2504E0-4F89-11D3-9A0C-0305E82C3301")
>>> print(some_uuid)
3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301
>>> print(repr(some_uuid))
UUID('3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301')

    Your assertion that isinstance() returns False isn’t reproducible on my end:

    >>> isinstance(uuid.UUID("3F2504E0-4F89-11D3-9A0C-0305E82C3301"), uuid.UUID)
True
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