import base64 import uuid def fcid2uuid(s): """ Converts a fatcat identifier (base32 encoded string) to a uuid.UUID object """ s = s.split('_')[-1].upper().encode('utf-8') assert len(s) == 26 raw = base64.b32decode(s + b"======") return str(uuid.UUID(bytes=raw)).lower() def uuid2fcid(s): """ Converts a uuid.UUID object to a fatcat identifier (base32 encoded string) """ raw = uuid.UUID(s).bytes return base64.b32encode(raw)[:26].lower().decode('utf-8') def test_fcid(): test_uuid = '00000000-0000-0000-3333-000000000001' assert test_uuid == fcid2uuid(uuid2fcid(test_uuid))