{"categories":[{"label":"Software Development","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development/4"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides UUID object creation and RFC 4122-compliant unique identifier generation for Python applications.","skillfed_tags":["legacy","obsolete"],"use_cases":["Legacy Python codebases that predate the standard library uuid module and cannot be updated","Systems requiring RFC 4122 UUID generation on very old Python versions where the standard library is unavailable","Archival or forensic analysis of historical Python projects that explicitly depend on this package"],"what_it_does":"This package provides UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) objects and generation functions conforming to RFC 4122. It creates unique identifiers that can be used as keys, references, or identifiers in distributed systems where collision probability must be negligible.\n\nThe package is effectively obsolete: Python's standard library has included a uuid module, making this third-party implementation unnecessary for modern development. The package was last released on 2007-05-26 and has received no maintenance or updates in many years. Installing it introduces technical debt and licensing uncertainty without functional benefit over the built-in alternative.","worth_installing":"No. Do not install this package. Python's standard library uuid module provides identical functionality with active maintenance and no licensing ambiguity. This package is abandoned, unmaintained since 2007-05-26, and creates unnecessary risk. Use the built-in uuid module instead. Only consider this package if you are maintaining legacy code that cannot be modernized."},"id":"uuid","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/uuid","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/uuid.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/uuid/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2007-05-26","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"uuid","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"UUID object and generation functions (Python 2.3 or higher)"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":2862690,"position":2857,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.30"}