The useful functionality (encoding/decoding) is covered by binascii, which uu in fact uses internally. What the uu module proper provides is a pair of awful fi

The useful functionality (encoding/decoding) is covered by binascii, which uu in fact uses internally. What the uu module proper provides is a pair of awful file-to-file interfaces. Default to spitting the decoded file directly to disk at with the name in its header is, uh, questionable.