How do you construct a GUID with a set prefix and zero-padded suffix?

Question

Freebase's Python API uses GUIDs that have a set prefix and a zero-padded suffix:

"guid":"#9202a8c04000641f8000000000211f52" (http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Guid)

"Freebase guids are represented with 32 hexidecimal characters, the first 17 are the graph prefix and the remaining 15 are the item suffix" (http://tinyify.freebaseapps.com/).

This format enables the GUID to compress down for short URLs.

How do you construct GUIDs like this?

Answer 1

You'd need to look at the source for Freebase where it generates that GUID. It's definitely not a standard RFC GUID of any sort.