Cease detecting MD5 hashes as UUIDs

It fails the comparison anyway — because of casing & dashes not fitting into alphanumeric ranges/slices.

Author: Sergey Vasilyev

data_diff/utils.py

@@ -43,7 +43,14 @@ def safezip(*args):
  return zip(*args)
 
 
-def is_uuid(u):
+UUID_PATTERN = re.compile(r"[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}", re.I)
+
+
+def is_uuid(u: str) -> bool:
+ # E.g., hashlib.md5(b'hello') is a 32-letter hex number, but not an UUID.
+ # It would fail UUID-like comparison (< & >) because of casing and dashes.
+ if not UUID_PATTERN.fullmatch(u):
+ return False
  try:
  UUID(u)
  except ValueError: