From 85f872d3b88062a7176c51859c51aa9e41c51ba5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Krijnen <t.krijnen@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 16:03:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ifcopenshell.guid.new()

---
 src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/guid.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/guid.py b/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/guid.py
index ddc95694b9..86ee5c4cef 100644
--- a/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/guid.py
+++ b/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/guid.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #                                                                             #
 ###############################################################################
 
+import uuid
 import string
 
 from functools import reduce
@@ -40,4 +41,6 @@ def expand(g):
 
 def split(g):
     return '{%s-%s-%s-%s-%s}'%(g[:8], g[8:12], g[12:16], g[16:20], g[20:])
-
+    
+def new():
+    return compress(uuid.uuid4().hex)