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<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.1.</span></p>
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<p>Create a universally unique identifier (aka GUID) as per RFC4122
based on the hash of the combined values of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;namespace&gt;</span></code>
(which itself has to be a valid UUID) and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;name&gt;</span></code>.
The hash algorithm can