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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/uuid.rst7
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_uuid.py4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/uuid.rst b/Doc/library/uuid.rst
index 53cbd6c..91dbca2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/uuid.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/uuid.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ random UUID.
variant and version number set according to RFC 4122, overriding bits in the
given *hex*, *bytes*, *bytes_le*, *fields*, or *int*.
+ Comparison of UUID objects are made by way of comparing their
+ :attr:`UUID.int` attributes. Comparison with a non-UUID object
+ raises a :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+ ``str(uuid)`` returns a string in the form
+ ``12345678-1234-5678-1234-567812345678`` where the 32 hexadecimal digits
+ represent the UUID.
:class:`UUID` instances have these read-only attributes:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_uuid.py b/Lib/test/test_uuid.py
index e34d8e6..47248f9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_uuid.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_uuid.py
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ class TestUUID(unittest.TestCase):
badtype(lambda: setattr(u, 'clock_seq_low', 0))
badtype(lambda: setattr(u, 'node', 0))
+ # Comparison with a non-UUID object
+ badtype(lambda: u < object())
+ badtype(lambda: u > object())
+
def test_getnode(self):
node1 = uuid.getnode()
self.assertTrue(0 < node1 < (1 << 48), '%012x' % node1)