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+Metadata-Version: 2.2
+Name: mfid
+Version: 1.0.0
+Summary: MFID: a Mighty Fine Identifier
+Home-page: https://github.com/MolecularFoundry/mfid
+Author: Edward S. Barnard
+Author-email: esbarnard@lbl.gov
+License: BSD
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: uuid7
+Dynamic: author
+Dynamic: author-email
+Dynamic: description
+Dynamic: description-content-type
+Dynamic: home-page
+Dynamic: license
+Dynamic: requires-dist
+Dynamic: summary
+
+# MFID: a Mighty Fine Identifier
+
+A compact universal persistent identifier is useful in many contexts, 
+especially in scientific and engineering disiplines that happen distributed around the world. 
+ 
+We would like to uniquely identify data sets, samples, without coordinating the generation of such identifiers.
+
+Guiding principles for creating an identifier scheme:
+
+ - Global uniqueness 
+ - Compact
+ - Human readable/typeable
+ - Lexicographically sortable (by time)
+ - Used as a filename (limits on filesystems: case-sensitivity, length, allowable characters)
+ - Use existing standards as much as possible
+
+**Short TL;DR:** MFID is a UUIDv7 + Crockford's Base32 representation. MFID gives a standards compliant timestamp-based compact universally unique identifier.
+
+**An example MFID: `0swqzb3a1sthv000xd8kta0vrw`**
+
+
+## Using existing standards
+
+MFID is based on the UUIDv7 standard. UUID's are [RFC standardized](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9562/) "universal" identifiers.  UUIDs have are 128-bit numbers with a specifc form, including randomly generated sections.
+128 bits enough for every grain of sand on earth to have 10<sup>20</sup> UUIDs.
+Therefore, collisions are extremely unlikely, so we can create UUIDs without checking a central database.
+
+UUIDs are cannonically represented as a hexdecimal string with `-` seperators. This ends up giving you a 36 character representation. For Example: `064dfc00-f4e6-71ae-8000-d890eded3ecd`. MFID uses the UUIDv7 unqiue indentifier, but packs it into a more space efficent manner for use in labelling data and physical objects (See Compact Representation section below).
+
+UUIDs v7 (part of the 2024 version of the RFC standard) has an interesting and useful property: Leading XX bits are time ordered and represent a timestamp of creation. This means that to the millisecond time-scale UUIDv7s are lexicographically by time. The rest of the UUIDv7 bits encode randomness, avoiding collision issues.
+
+### Anatomy of a UUIDv7 (borrowed from python package `uuidv7`):
+
+```
+         0                   1                   2                   3
+         0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t1      |                 unixts (secs since epoch)                     |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t2/t3   |unixts |  frac secs (12 bits)  |  ver  |  frac secs (12 bits)  |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t4/rand |var|       seq (14 bits)       |          rand (16 bits)       |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+rand    |                          rand (32 bits)                       |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+```
+
+
+Other non-RFC standards exist and have inspired MFID. These schemes handle many of our needs, but not all:
+
+[**ULID**](https://github.com/ulid/spec): Handles most of the needs, but is not convertable to and from a valid RFC-defined UUID. Inspired our use of Crockerfords Base32 representation.
+
+[**NanoID**](https://github.com/ai/nanoid): A nice compact global identifier, but random and time sorted.
+
+## Compact representation
+
+[Crockford’s Base32](https://www.crockford.com/base32.html) encoding scheme can take the 128bit UUIDv7 and its 36 character hexdecimal representation and compactly present the same information in 26 alphanumeric characters (09,a-z).
+
+UUIDv7: `06797fac-6a0e-751d-8000-eb513d281bc7` 
+
+transforms via CB32 to:
+
+MFID: `0swqzb3a1sthv000xd8kta0vrw`
+
+
+
+
+
+## Shortened MFID
+
+For cases when microsecond time-based collisions are unlikely, we can often shorten the MFID to the first 13 characters, skipping the version ID and random portions of the UUIDv7:
+
+Example: `0swqzb3a1sthv`
+
+## Examples
+
+### New Years Day for years!
+
+```python
+for yr in [2023,2024,2025, 2030, 2038, 2040, 2200, 4100]:
+    x = datetime(yr, 1,1,0,0,0)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(yr, mfid(ns))
+...
+2023 ('0rxgsm0001r010006jjjm8t8ng', UUID('063b0cd0-0000-7000-8000-34a52a2348ac'))
+2024 ('0scj020001r01000w7rcx2j4hw', UUID('06592008-0000-7000-8000-e1f0ce8a448f'))
+2025 ('0svmgp0001r010007b7cwx3jz8', UUID('06774858-0000-7000-8000-3acece7472fa'))
+2030 ('0w6vv20001r01000dhzrn9hpyw', UUID('070dbd88-0000-7000-8000-6c7f8aa636f7'))
+2038 ('0zz82y0001r010006ekbn2c3w8', UUID('07fe8178-0000-7000-8000-33a6ba8983e2'))
+2040 ('10xaft0001r01000qwbh0mmxvm', UUID('083aa7e8-0000-7000-8000-bf1710529ddd'))
+2200 ('3c4y340001r010000ha7kk1pj4', UUID('1b09e190-0000-7000-8000-045479cc3691'))
+4100 ('z9k82t0001r0100006969dz8ec', UUID('fa668168-0000-7000-8000-019264b7e873'))
+```
+
+### Second timestamps in the first 8 characters
+```python
+for seconds in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,seconds)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(seconds, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcbw001s3q000gsrdyz9378', UUID('0679762f-8000-723b-8000-8670df7d233a'))
+1 ('0swqcbwg01s3q000bqmjy1mtw8', UUID('0679762f-9000-723b-8000-5de92f069ae2'))
+2 ('0swqcbx001s3q0001hhksjsvy4', UUID('0679762f-a000-723b-8000-0c633ccb3bf1'))
+3 ('0swqcbxg01s3q000sbvrwte3nm', UUID('0679762f-b000-723b-8000-caf78e69c3ad'))
+4 ('0swqcby001s3q0009egs4xa0bg', UUID('0679762f-c000-723b-8000-4ba19275405c'))
+5 ('0swqcbyg01s3q00015edb5wwnm', UUID('0679762f-d000-723b-8000-095cd5979cad'))
+6 ('0swqcbz001s3q000acpnac54s0', UUID('0679762f-e000-723b-8000-532d5530a4c8'))
+7 ('0swqcbzg01s3q000wvqaa411sw', UUID('0679762f-f000-723b-8000-e6eea51021cf'))
+8 ('0swqcc0001s3q000vp989v3gfg', UUID('06797630-0000-723b-8000-dd9284ec707c'))
+9 ('0swqcc0g01s3q000p7x2a1ez28', UUID('06797630-1000-723b-8000-b1fa2505df12'))
+```
+
+### Microsecond representation in the first 13 characters
+```python
+for microseconds in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,23, microsecond=microseconds)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(microseconds, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcc7g01r01000307p2d6p5r', UUID('06797630-f000-7000-8000-180f6134d62e'))
+1 ('0swqcc7g01r1300068qb5q6a0m', UUID('06797630-f000-7011-8000-322eb2dcca05'))
+2 ('0swqcc7g01r1x000qkqafxsw2r', UUID('06797630-f000-701e-8000-bceea7f73c16'))
+3 ('0swqcc7g01r37000sbxpjk39er', UUID('06797630-f000-7033-8000-cafb694c6976'))
+4 ('0swqcc7g01r49000ezrr6jbtt4', UUID('06797630-f000-7044-8000-77f183497ad1'))
+5 ('0swqcc7g01r5b0009rec26p9g8', UUID('06797630-f000-7055-8000-4e1cc11ac982'))
+6 ('0swqcc7g01r650004bs8egfwrr', UUID('06797630-f000-7062-8000-22f28741fcc6'))
+7 ('0swqcc7g01r770006k9jrrgp2m', UUID('06797630-f000-7073-8000-34d32c621615'))
+8 ('0swqcc7g01r8k000vvctva7eem', UUID('06797630-f000-7089-8000-ded9ada8ee75'))
+9 ('0swqcc7g01r9d000j21jksndv0', UUID('06797630-f000-7096-8000-908329e6add8'))
+```
+
+### Randomness helps with identical timestamps
+```python
+for i in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,23,563)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(i, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcc7g09te9000qzbx6hybcc', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8000-bfd7d347cb63'))
+1 ('0swqcc7g09te9001n0pp3repmg', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8001-a82d61e1d6a4'))
+2 ('0swqcc7g09te90021zgr40n04g', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8002-0fe18202a024'))
+3 ('0swqcc7g09te9003a04nkksdgg', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8003-500959cf2d84'))
+4 ('0swqcc7g09te9004ab86st4jz8', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8004-52d06ce892fa'))
+5 ('0swqcc7g09te9005p5mqczg7ac', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8005-b169767e0753'))
+6 ('0swqcc7g09te9006ncvx7ht68c', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8006-ab37d3c74643'))
+7 ('0swqcc7g09te9007kkw28mqk9r', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8007-9cf82452f34e'))
+8 ('0swqcc7g09te9008xhrrs70qh0', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8008-ec718c9c1788'))
+9 ('0swqcc7g09te90090knvrvb0gc', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8009-04ebbc6d6083'))
+```
+
+## Python implementation
+
+
+```console
+$ pip install mfid
+```
+
+```python
+from mfid import mfid
+mfid_str, uuid_obj = mfid()
+```
+
+```pycon     
+>>> import mfid  
+>>> mfid.mfid()
+('0sx3p4n631xck000vvs2ecrarc', UUID('067a3b12-a618-7ac9-8000-def227330ac3'))
+```
+
+The function `mfid()`creates a 26 character encoded string based on lowercase Crockford's Base32 encoding of a UUID. 
+Uses a time sequential UUIDv7 if available, otherwise create a random UUIDv4. It returns a tuple of mfid string and the associated UUID object.
+
+Note that the python standard library does not include a UUIDv7 generator yet, so we rely on the [`uuidv7`](https://pypi.org/project/uuid7/) package for UUID generation. MFID will fallback to UUIDv4 (fully random) if UUIDv7 is unavailable.
+
+
+## Author
+
+Edward S. Barnard <esbarnard@lbl.gov>

mfid-1.0.0/README.md

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+# MFID: a Mighty Fine Identifier
+
+A compact universal persistent identifier is useful in many contexts, 
+especially in scientific and engineering disiplines that happen distributed around the world. 
+ 
+We would like to uniquely identify data sets, samples, without coordinating the generation of such identifiers.
+
+Guiding principles for creating an identifier scheme:
+
+ - Global uniqueness 
+ - Compact
+ - Human readable/typeable
+ - Lexicographically sortable (by time)
+ - Used as a filename (limits on filesystems: case-sensitivity, length, allowable characters)
+ - Use existing standards as much as possible
+
+**Short TL;DR:** MFID is a UUIDv7 + Crockford's Base32 representation. MFID gives a standards compliant timestamp-based compact universally unique identifier.
+
+**An example MFID: `0swqzb3a1sthv000xd8kta0vrw`**
+
+
+## Using existing standards
+
+MFID is based on the UUIDv7 standard. UUID's are [RFC standardized](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9562/) "universal" identifiers.  UUIDs have are 128-bit numbers with a specifc form, including randomly generated sections.
+128 bits enough for every grain of sand on earth to have 10<sup>20</sup> UUIDs.
+Therefore, collisions are extremely unlikely, so we can create UUIDs without checking a central database.
+
+UUIDs are cannonically represented as a hexdecimal string with `-` seperators. This ends up giving you a 36 character representation. For Example: `064dfc00-f4e6-71ae-8000-d890eded3ecd`. MFID uses the UUIDv7 unqiue indentifier, but packs it into a more space efficent manner for use in labelling data and physical objects (See Compact Representation section below).
+
+UUIDs v7 (part of the 2024 version of the RFC standard) has an interesting and useful property: Leading XX bits are time ordered and represent a timestamp of creation. This means that to the millisecond time-scale UUIDv7s are lexicographically by time. The rest of the UUIDv7 bits encode randomness, avoiding collision issues.
+
+### Anatomy of a UUIDv7 (borrowed from python package `uuidv7`):
+
+```
+         0                   1                   2                   3
+         0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t1      |                 unixts (secs since epoch)                     |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t2/t3   |unixts |  frac secs (12 bits)  |  ver  |  frac secs (12 bits)  |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t4/rand |var|       seq (14 bits)       |          rand (16 bits)       |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+rand    |                          rand (32 bits)                       |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+```
+
+
+Other non-RFC standards exist and have inspired MFID. These schemes handle many of our needs, but not all:
+
+[**ULID**](https://github.com/ulid/spec): Handles most of the needs, but is not convertable to and from a valid RFC-defined UUID. Inspired our use of Crockerfords Base32 representation.
+
+[**NanoID**](https://github.com/ai/nanoid): A nice compact global identifier, but random and time sorted.
+
+## Compact representation
+
+[Crockford’s Base32](https://www.crockford.com/base32.html) encoding scheme can take the 128bit UUIDv7 and its 36 character hexdecimal representation and compactly present the same information in 26 alphanumeric characters (09,a-z).
+
+UUIDv7: `06797fac-6a0e-751d-8000-eb513d281bc7` 
+
+transforms via CB32 to:
+
+MFID: `0swqzb3a1sthv000xd8kta0vrw`
+
+
+
+
+
+## Shortened MFID
+
+For cases when microsecond time-based collisions are unlikely, we can often shorten the MFID to the first 13 characters, skipping the version ID and random portions of the UUIDv7:
+
+Example: `0swqzb3a1sthv`
+
+## Examples
+
+### New Years Day for years!
+
+```python
+for yr in [2023,2024,2025, 2030, 2038, 2040, 2200, 4100]:
+    x = datetime(yr, 1,1,0,0,0)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(yr, mfid(ns))
+...
+2023 ('0rxgsm0001r010006jjjm8t8ng', UUID('063b0cd0-0000-7000-8000-34a52a2348ac'))
+2024 ('0scj020001r01000w7rcx2j4hw', UUID('06592008-0000-7000-8000-e1f0ce8a448f'))
+2025 ('0svmgp0001r010007b7cwx3jz8', UUID('06774858-0000-7000-8000-3acece7472fa'))
+2030 ('0w6vv20001r01000dhzrn9hpyw', UUID('070dbd88-0000-7000-8000-6c7f8aa636f7'))
+2038 ('0zz82y0001r010006ekbn2c3w8', UUID('07fe8178-0000-7000-8000-33a6ba8983e2'))
+2040 ('10xaft0001r01000qwbh0mmxvm', UUID('083aa7e8-0000-7000-8000-bf1710529ddd'))
+2200 ('3c4y340001r010000ha7kk1pj4', UUID('1b09e190-0000-7000-8000-045479cc3691'))
+4100 ('z9k82t0001r0100006969dz8ec', UUID('fa668168-0000-7000-8000-019264b7e873'))
+```
+
+### Second timestamps in the first 8 characters
+```python
+for seconds in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,seconds)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(seconds, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcbw001s3q000gsrdyz9378', UUID('0679762f-8000-723b-8000-8670df7d233a'))
+1 ('0swqcbwg01s3q000bqmjy1mtw8', UUID('0679762f-9000-723b-8000-5de92f069ae2'))
+2 ('0swqcbx001s3q0001hhksjsvy4', UUID('0679762f-a000-723b-8000-0c633ccb3bf1'))
+3 ('0swqcbxg01s3q000sbvrwte3nm', UUID('0679762f-b000-723b-8000-caf78e69c3ad'))
+4 ('0swqcby001s3q0009egs4xa0bg', UUID('0679762f-c000-723b-8000-4ba19275405c'))
+5 ('0swqcbyg01s3q00015edb5wwnm', UUID('0679762f-d000-723b-8000-095cd5979cad'))
+6 ('0swqcbz001s3q000acpnac54s0', UUID('0679762f-e000-723b-8000-532d5530a4c8'))
+7 ('0swqcbzg01s3q000wvqaa411sw', UUID('0679762f-f000-723b-8000-e6eea51021cf'))
+8 ('0swqcc0001s3q000vp989v3gfg', UUID('06797630-0000-723b-8000-dd9284ec707c'))
+9 ('0swqcc0g01s3q000p7x2a1ez28', UUID('06797630-1000-723b-8000-b1fa2505df12'))
+```
+
+### Microsecond representation in the first 13 characters
+```python
+for microseconds in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,23, microsecond=microseconds)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(microseconds, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcc7g01r01000307p2d6p5r', UUID('06797630-f000-7000-8000-180f6134d62e'))
+1 ('0swqcc7g01r1300068qb5q6a0m', UUID('06797630-f000-7011-8000-322eb2dcca05'))
+2 ('0swqcc7g01r1x000qkqafxsw2r', UUID('06797630-f000-701e-8000-bceea7f73c16'))
+3 ('0swqcc7g01r37000sbxpjk39er', UUID('06797630-f000-7033-8000-cafb694c6976'))
+4 ('0swqcc7g01r49000ezrr6jbtt4', UUID('06797630-f000-7044-8000-77f183497ad1'))
+5 ('0swqcc7g01r5b0009rec26p9g8', UUID('06797630-f000-7055-8000-4e1cc11ac982'))
+6 ('0swqcc7g01r650004bs8egfwrr', UUID('06797630-f000-7062-8000-22f28741fcc6'))
+7 ('0swqcc7g01r770006k9jrrgp2m', UUID('06797630-f000-7073-8000-34d32c621615'))
+8 ('0swqcc7g01r8k000vvctva7eem', UUID('06797630-f000-7089-8000-ded9ada8ee75'))
+9 ('0swqcc7g01r9d000j21jksndv0', UUID('06797630-f000-7096-8000-908329e6add8'))
+```
+
+### Randomness helps with identical timestamps
+```python
+for i in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,23,563)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(i, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcc7g09te9000qzbx6hybcc', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8000-bfd7d347cb63'))
+1 ('0swqcc7g09te9001n0pp3repmg', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8001-a82d61e1d6a4'))
+2 ('0swqcc7g09te90021zgr40n04g', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8002-0fe18202a024'))
+3 ('0swqcc7g09te9003a04nkksdgg', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8003-500959cf2d84'))
+4 ('0swqcc7g09te9004ab86st4jz8', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8004-52d06ce892fa'))
+5 ('0swqcc7g09te9005p5mqczg7ac', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8005-b169767e0753'))
+6 ('0swqcc7g09te9006ncvx7ht68c', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8006-ab37d3c74643'))
+7 ('0swqcc7g09te9007kkw28mqk9r', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8007-9cf82452f34e'))
+8 ('0swqcc7g09te9008xhrrs70qh0', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8008-ec718c9c1788'))
+9 ('0swqcc7g09te90090knvrvb0gc', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8009-04ebbc6d6083'))
+```
+
+## Python implementation
+
+
+```console
+$ pip install mfid
+```
+
+```python
+from mfid import mfid
+mfid_str, uuid_obj = mfid()
+```
+
+```pycon     
+>>> import mfid  
+>>> mfid.mfid()
+('0sx3p4n631xck000vvs2ecrarc', UUID('067a3b12-a618-7ac9-8000-def227330ac3'))
+```
+
+The function `mfid()`creates a 26 character encoded string based on lowercase Crockford's Base32 encoding of a UUID. 
+Uses a time sequential UUIDv7 if available, otherwise create a random UUIDv4. It returns a tuple of mfid string and the associated UUID object.
+
+Note that the python standard library does not include a UUIDv7 generator yet, so we rely on the [`uuidv7`](https://pypi.org/project/uuid7/) package for UUID generation. MFID will fallback to UUIDv4 (fully random) if UUIDv7 is unavailable.
+
+
+## Author
+
+Edward S. Barnard <esbarnard@lbl.gov>

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+Metadata-Version: 2.2
+Name: mfid
+Version: 1.0.0
+Summary: MFID: a Mighty Fine Identifier
+Home-page: https://github.com/MolecularFoundry/mfid
+Author: Edward S. Barnard
+Author-email: esbarnard@lbl.gov
+License: BSD
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: uuid7
+Dynamic: author
+Dynamic: author-email
+Dynamic: description
+Dynamic: description-content-type
+Dynamic: home-page
+Dynamic: license
+Dynamic: requires-dist
+Dynamic: summary
+
+# MFID: a Mighty Fine Identifier
+
+A compact universal persistent identifier is useful in many contexts, 
+especially in scientific and engineering disiplines that happen distributed around the world. 
+ 
+We would like to uniquely identify data sets, samples, without coordinating the generation of such identifiers.
+
+Guiding principles for creating an identifier scheme:
+
+ - Global uniqueness 
+ - Compact
+ - Human readable/typeable
+ - Lexicographically sortable (by time)
+ - Used as a filename (limits on filesystems: case-sensitivity, length, allowable characters)
+ - Use existing standards as much as possible
+
+**Short TL;DR:** MFID is a UUIDv7 + Crockford's Base32 representation. MFID gives a standards compliant timestamp-based compact universally unique identifier.
+
+**An example MFID: `0swqzb3a1sthv000xd8kta0vrw`**
+
+
+## Using existing standards
+
+MFID is based on the UUIDv7 standard. UUID's are [RFC standardized](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9562/) "universal" identifiers.  UUIDs have are 128-bit numbers with a specifc form, including randomly generated sections.
+128 bits enough for every grain of sand on earth to have 10<sup>20</sup> UUIDs.
+Therefore, collisions are extremely unlikely, so we can create UUIDs without checking a central database.
+
+UUIDs are cannonically represented as a hexdecimal string with `-` seperators. This ends up giving you a 36 character representation. For Example: `064dfc00-f4e6-71ae-8000-d890eded3ecd`. MFID uses the UUIDv7 unqiue indentifier, but packs it into a more space efficent manner for use in labelling data and physical objects (See Compact Representation section below).
+
+UUIDs v7 (part of the 2024 version of the RFC standard) has an interesting and useful property: Leading XX bits are time ordered and represent a timestamp of creation. This means that to the millisecond time-scale UUIDv7s are lexicographically by time. The rest of the UUIDv7 bits encode randomness, avoiding collision issues.
+
+### Anatomy of a UUIDv7 (borrowed from python package `uuidv7`):
+
+```
+         0                   1                   2                   3
+         0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t1      |                 unixts (secs since epoch)                     |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t2/t3   |unixts |  frac secs (12 bits)  |  ver  |  frac secs (12 bits)  |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+t4/rand |var|       seq (14 bits)       |          rand (16 bits)       |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+rand    |                          rand (32 bits)                       |
+        +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+```
+
+
+Other non-RFC standards exist and have inspired MFID. These schemes handle many of our needs, but not all:
+
+[**ULID**](https://github.com/ulid/spec): Handles most of the needs, but is not convertable to and from a valid RFC-defined UUID. Inspired our use of Crockerfords Base32 representation.
+
+[**NanoID**](https://github.com/ai/nanoid): A nice compact global identifier, but random and time sorted.
+
+## Compact representation
+
+[Crockford’s Base32](https://www.crockford.com/base32.html) encoding scheme can take the 128bit UUIDv7 and its 36 character hexdecimal representation and compactly present the same information in 26 alphanumeric characters (09,a-z).
+
+UUIDv7: `06797fac-6a0e-751d-8000-eb513d281bc7` 
+
+transforms via CB32 to:
+
+MFID: `0swqzb3a1sthv000xd8kta0vrw`
+
+
+
+
+
+## Shortened MFID
+
+For cases when microsecond time-based collisions are unlikely, we can often shorten the MFID to the first 13 characters, skipping the version ID and random portions of the UUIDv7:
+
+Example: `0swqzb3a1sthv`
+
+## Examples
+
+### New Years Day for years!
+
+```python
+for yr in [2023,2024,2025, 2030, 2038, 2040, 2200, 4100]:
+    x = datetime(yr, 1,1,0,0,0)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(yr, mfid(ns))
+...
+2023 ('0rxgsm0001r010006jjjm8t8ng', UUID('063b0cd0-0000-7000-8000-34a52a2348ac'))
+2024 ('0scj020001r01000w7rcx2j4hw', UUID('06592008-0000-7000-8000-e1f0ce8a448f'))
+2025 ('0svmgp0001r010007b7cwx3jz8', UUID('06774858-0000-7000-8000-3acece7472fa'))
+2030 ('0w6vv20001r01000dhzrn9hpyw', UUID('070dbd88-0000-7000-8000-6c7f8aa636f7'))
+2038 ('0zz82y0001r010006ekbn2c3w8', UUID('07fe8178-0000-7000-8000-33a6ba8983e2'))
+2040 ('10xaft0001r01000qwbh0mmxvm', UUID('083aa7e8-0000-7000-8000-bf1710529ddd'))
+2200 ('3c4y340001r010000ha7kk1pj4', UUID('1b09e190-0000-7000-8000-045479cc3691'))
+4100 ('z9k82t0001r0100006969dz8ec', UUID('fa668168-0000-7000-8000-019264b7e873'))
+```
+
+### Second timestamps in the first 8 characters
+```python
+for seconds in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,seconds)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(seconds, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcbw001s3q000gsrdyz9378', UUID('0679762f-8000-723b-8000-8670df7d233a'))
+1 ('0swqcbwg01s3q000bqmjy1mtw8', UUID('0679762f-9000-723b-8000-5de92f069ae2'))
+2 ('0swqcbx001s3q0001hhksjsvy4', UUID('0679762f-a000-723b-8000-0c633ccb3bf1'))
+3 ('0swqcbxg01s3q000sbvrwte3nm', UUID('0679762f-b000-723b-8000-caf78e69c3ad'))
+4 ('0swqcby001s3q0009egs4xa0bg', UUID('0679762f-c000-723b-8000-4ba19275405c'))
+5 ('0swqcbyg01s3q00015edb5wwnm', UUID('0679762f-d000-723b-8000-095cd5979cad'))
+6 ('0swqcbz001s3q000acpnac54s0', UUID('0679762f-e000-723b-8000-532d5530a4c8'))
+7 ('0swqcbzg01s3q000wvqaa411sw', UUID('0679762f-f000-723b-8000-e6eea51021cf'))
+8 ('0swqcc0001s3q000vp989v3gfg', UUID('06797630-0000-723b-8000-dd9284ec707c'))
+9 ('0swqcc0g01s3q000p7x2a1ez28', UUID('06797630-1000-723b-8000-b1fa2505df12'))
+```
+
+### Microsecond representation in the first 13 characters
+```python
+for microseconds in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,23, microsecond=microseconds)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(microseconds, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcc7g01r01000307p2d6p5r', UUID('06797630-f000-7000-8000-180f6134d62e'))
+1 ('0swqcc7g01r1300068qb5q6a0m', UUID('06797630-f000-7011-8000-322eb2dcca05'))
+2 ('0swqcc7g01r1x000qkqafxsw2r', UUID('06797630-f000-701e-8000-bceea7f73c16'))
+3 ('0swqcc7g01r37000sbxpjk39er', UUID('06797630-f000-7033-8000-cafb694c6976'))
+4 ('0swqcc7g01r49000ezrr6jbtt4', UUID('06797630-f000-7044-8000-77f183497ad1'))
+5 ('0swqcc7g01r5b0009rec26p9g8', UUID('06797630-f000-7055-8000-4e1cc11ac982'))
+6 ('0swqcc7g01r650004bs8egfwrr', UUID('06797630-f000-7062-8000-22f28741fcc6'))
+7 ('0swqcc7g01r770006k9jrrgp2m', UUID('06797630-f000-7073-8000-34d32c621615'))
+8 ('0swqcc7g01r8k000vvctva7eem', UUID('06797630-f000-7089-8000-ded9ada8ee75'))
+9 ('0swqcc7g01r9d000j21jksndv0', UUID('06797630-f000-7096-8000-908329e6add8'))
+```
+
+### Randomness helps with identical timestamps
+```python
+for i in range(10):
+    x = datetime(2025,1,27, 10,42,23,563)
+    ns = int(x.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()*10**9)
+    print(i, mfid(ns))
+...
+0 ('0swqcc7g09te9000qzbx6hybcc', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8000-bfd7d347cb63'))
+1 ('0swqcc7g09te9001n0pp3repmg', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8001-a82d61e1d6a4'))
+2 ('0swqcc7g09te90021zgr40n04g', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8002-0fe18202a024'))
+3 ('0swqcc7g09te9003a04nkksdgg', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8003-500959cf2d84'))
+4 ('0swqcc7g09te9004ab86st4jz8', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8004-52d06ce892fa'))
+5 ('0swqcc7g09te9005p5mqczg7ac', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8005-b169767e0753'))
+6 ('0swqcc7g09te9006ncvx7ht68c', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8006-ab37d3c74643'))
+7 ('0swqcc7g09te9007kkw28mqk9r', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8007-9cf82452f34e'))
+8 ('0swqcc7g09te9008xhrrs70qh0', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8008-ec718c9c1788'))
+9 ('0swqcc7g09te90090knvrvb0gc', UUID('06797630-f002-74e4-8009-04ebbc6d6083'))
+```
+
+## Python implementation
+
+
+```console
+$ pip install mfid
+```
+
+```python
+from mfid import mfid
+mfid_str, uuid_obj = mfid()
+```
+
+```pycon     
+>>> import mfid  
+>>> mfid.mfid()
+('0sx3p4n631xck000vvs2ecrarc', UUID('067a3b12-a618-7ac9-8000-def227330ac3'))
+```
+
+The function `mfid()`creates a 26 character encoded string based on lowercase Crockford's Base32 encoding of a UUID. 
+Uses a time sequential UUIDv7 if available, otherwise create a random UUIDv4. It returns a tuple of mfid string and the associated UUID object.
+
+Note that the python standard library does not include a UUIDv7 generator yet, so we rely on the [`uuidv7`](https://pypi.org/project/uuid7/) package for UUID generation. MFID will fallback to UUIDv4 (fully random) if UUIDv7 is unavailable.
+
+
+## Author
+
+Edward S. Barnard <esbarnard@lbl.gov>

mfid-1.0.0/mfid.egg-info/SOURCES.txt

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+LICENSE
+README.md
+mfid.py
+setup.py
+mfid.egg-info/PKG-INFO
+mfid.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+mfid.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
+mfid.egg-info/requires.txt
+mfid.egg-info/top_level.txt

mfid-1.0.0/mfid.egg-info/dependency_links.txt

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+

mfid-1.0.0/mfid.egg-info/requires.txt

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+uuid7

mfid-1.0.0/mfid.egg-info/top_level.txt

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+mfid

mfid-1.0.0/mfid.py

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+"""
+# MFID: a Mighty Fine Identifier
+
+MFID gives a standards compliant timestamp-based compact
+universally unique identifier.
+MFID is a UUIDv7 + Crockford's Base32 representation.
+
+**An example MFID: `0swqzb3a1sthv000xd8kta0vrw`**
+
+Author: Edward S. Barnard <esbarnard@lbl.gov>
+License: BSD
+URL: https://github.com/MolecularFoundry/mfid
+"""
+
+
+import uuid
+import base64 # part of standard library
+
+b32_alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567"
+cb32_alphabet = "0123456789abcdefghjkmnpqrstvwxyz"
+
+b32_to_cb32_map = dict(zip(b32_alphabet,cb32_alphabet))
+
+def b32_to_cb32(x):
+    """
+    Map a base32 encoded string (without padding) 
+    to a Crockford's Base32 encoded string
+    
+    https://www.crockford.com/base32.html
+    """
+    return "".join(
+        [ b32_to_cb32_map[k] for k in x ]
+    )
+    
+def uuid_to_cb32(u):
+    """Creates a 26 character encoded string based on lowercase
+    Crockford's Base32 encoding of the uuid.bytes
+    
+    u: uuid object
+    returns string of Crockford's Base32
+    """
+    # note we use typical base32 RFC 4648 alphabet in the base64 
+    # standard library and then convert to Crockford's by alphabet mapping
+    b32 = base64.b32encode(u.bytes).decode().strip("=")
+    cb32 = b32_to_cb32(b32)
+    return cb32
+
+
+def cb32_uuid4(*args, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Creates a 26 character encoded string based on lowercase
+    Crockford's Base32 (cb32) encoding of the uuid.bytes (UUIDv7) 
+
+    Useful as a compact random, globally unique
+    identifier that can be used as a filename on most operating systems
+    
+    returns cb32 string and UUIDv4 object
+    """
+    u = uuid.uuid4(*args, **kwargs)
+    cb32 = uuid_to_cb32(u)
+    return cb32,u
+
+def cb32_uuid7(*args, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Creates a 26 character encoded string based on lowercase
+    Crockford's Base32 (cb32) encoding of the uuid.bytes (UUIDv7) 
+
+    Useful as a compact time-based lexicographically-sortable
+    identifier that can be used as a filename on most operating systems
+
+    args and kwargs are passed to uuid7()
+    
+    returns cb32 string and UUIDv7 object
+    """
+    from uuid_extensions import uuid7 # pip install uuid7
+
+    u = uuid7(*args, **kwargs)
+    cb32 = uuid_to_cb32(u)
+    return cb32,u
+
+def mfid(*args, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Creates an MFID (a mighty fine identifier).
+    This is a 26 character encoded string based on lowercase
+    Crockford's Base32 encoding of a UUID. 
+    Uses a time sequential UUIDv7 if available,
+    otherwise create a random UUIDv4
+    
+    returns mfid string and associated UUID object as a tuple.
+
+    example:
+    >>> mfid.mfid()
+    ('0sx3p4n631xck000vvs2ecrarc', UUID('067a3b12-a618-7ac9-8000-def227330ac3'))
+    """    
+    try:
+        return cb32_uuid7(*args, **kwargs)
+    except:
+        return cb32_uuid4(*args, **kwargs)
+    
+cb32_uuid = mfid
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print(mfid())

mfid-1.0.0/setup.cfg

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+[egg_info]
+tag_build = 
+tag_date = 0
+

mfid-1.0.0/setup.py

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+from setuptools import setup
+
+setup(
+    name = 'mfid',
+    
+    version = '1.0.0',
+    
+    description = 'MFID: a Mighty Fine Identifier',
+    long_description =open('README.md', 'r').read(),
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
+    
+    # Author details
+    author='Edward S. Barnard',
+    author_email='esbarnard@lbl.gov',
+
+    # license
+    license='BSD',
+    
+    url='https://github.com/MolecularFoundry/mfid',
+
+    py_modules=["mfid"],
+
+    install_requires=["uuid7"],
+
+)