Merge pull request #486 from J535D165/master

Make it possible to seed uuid4 property #484
joke2k · Mar 20, 2017 · a50e9b8 · a50e9b8
2 parents 4f66c07 + 7229f42
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diff --git a/faker/providers/misc/__init__.py b/faker/providers/misc/__init__.py
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ def uuid4(cls):
         """
         Generates a random UUID4 string.
         """
-        return str(uuid.uuid4())
+        # Based on http://stackoverflow.com/q/41186818
+        return str(uuid.UUID(int=random.getrandbits(128)))
 
     @classmethod
     def password(cls, length=10, special_chars=True, digits=True, upper_case=True, lower_case=True):