from __future__ import unicode_literals import uuid import six import random def generate_stack_id(stack_name): random_id = uuid.uuid4() return "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-1:123456789:stack/{0}/{1}".format(stack_name, random_id) def random_suffix(): size = 12 chars = list(range(10)) + ['A-Z'] return ''.join(six.text_type(random.choice(chars)) for x in range(size))