shortuuid
A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs. (by skorokithakis)
ftfy
Fixes mojibake and other glitches in Unicode text, after the fact. (by rspeer)
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shortuuid | ftfy | |
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5 | 1 | |
1,975 | 3,704 | |
- | 1.1% | |
0.8 | 5.7 | |
about 1 year ago | 8 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
shortuuid
Posts with mentions or reviews of shortuuid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.
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Ask HN: Could you show your personal blog here?
Unlike many people here, I don't like to write hundreds of mediocre posts. Instead, I prefer very few posts, that unfortunately are still mediocre.
If you're tired of all the perfection that exists on the internet, where every piece is deeply insightful and changes your life, I'd encourage you to read my articles, which only promise to shorten it:
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Short, friendly base32 slugs from timestamps
I use shortuuid[0] for that stuff, which also omits the capital letter I, and has some other niceties (I wrote the library). It works really well, and I like how small the IDs are.
- Ask HN: What are your favorite personal sites?
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Building a Micro Business: What Services I Pay For
skorokithakis: developer of django-annoying and shortuuid
- GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer
ftfy
Posts with mentions or reviews of ftfy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-23.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing shortuuid and ftfy you can also consider the following projects:
pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing in Python
fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching in Python
chardet - Python character encoding detector
xpinyin - Translate Chinese hanzi to pinyin (拼音) by Python, 汉字转拼音
Levenshtein - The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity
pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python
uniout - Never see escaped bytes in output.
Charset Normalizer - Truly universal encoding detector in pure Python