Not all strings of length 32 or 64 are valid UUIDs

[pranasziaukas]

balena-sdk-python/balena/utils.py

Lines 28 to 41 in b220606

	def is_full_uuid(value: Any) -> bool:
	"""
	Return True, if the input value is a valid UUID. False otherwise.
	"""
	if isinstance(value, str):
	if len(value) == 32 or len(value) == 62:
	try:
	str(value)
	return True
	except ValueError:
	return False
	return False

Not all strings of length 32 or 64 are valid UUIDs, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

A common way to check for the UUID validity seems to be something like

from uuid import UUID

try:
    UUID(uuid_to_test)
except ValueError:
    return False
return True

Originally posted by @pranasziaukas in #326 (comment)