Generate UUIDs

generate_uuids.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Script for generating unique IDs for persons.
The script accepts command line arguments stating how many IDs should be generated,
if the number of IDs is not defined or it is not a number, the script will generate
default number of IDs (which is set to 10000).
"""

import uuid
import sys

default_ids = 10000
sys_args = sys.argv
if len(sys_args) == 2:
    try:
        sys_args[1] = int(sys_args[1])
    except ValueError as err:
        print("Command line argument was not converted to integer. ", err,
              "\nUsing default number of IDs to generate")
        sys_args[1] = default_ids
else:
    sys_args.append(default_ids)

for i in range(int(sys_args[1])):
    print(uuid.uuid4())