Get UID from relative URL

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from documentation i wrote such code for Plone 4.3

from plone import api
uid_about = api.content.get(path='/en/about').UID()

but i can not import api:
"ImportError: cannot import name api"

Please could you give me another way to get UID from a relative URL?
Thank you very much.

2

You can use restrictedTraverse like:

portal.restrictedTraverse('en/about')

See https://docs.plone.org/develop/plone/serving/traversing.html for more details

3 
from plone.uuid.interfaces import IUUID
context_uuid = IUUID(context, None)

in later Plone versions:

from plone import api
context_uuid = api.content.get_uuid(obj=context)

Edit/add: the UID is also stored in the portal catalog. Use that if you don't otherwise need to wake up your object.