:mod:`uu` --- Encode and decode uuencode files
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.. module:: uu
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:synopsis: Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
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.. moduleauthor:: Lance Ellinghouse
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**Source code:** :source:`Lib/uu.py`
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This module encodes and decodes files in uuencode format, allowing arbitrary
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binary data to be transferred over ASCII-only connections. Wherever a file
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argument is expected, the methods accept a file-like object. For backwards
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compatibility, a string containing a pathname is also accepted, and the
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corresponding file will be opened for reading and writing; the pathname ``'-'``
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is understood to mean the standard input or output. However, this interface is
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deprecated; it's better for the caller to open the file itself, and be sure
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that, when required, the mode is ``'rb'`` or ``'wb'`` on Windows.
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.. index::
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single: Jansen, Jack
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single: Ellinghouse, Lance
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This code was contributed by Lance Ellinghouse, and modified by Jack Jansen.
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The :mod:`uu` module defines the following functions:
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.. function:: encode(in_file, out_file, name=None, mode=None, *, backtick=False)
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Uuencode file *in_file* into file *out_file*. The uuencoded file will have
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the header specifying *name* and *mode* as the defaults for the results of
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decoding the file. The default defaults are taken from *in_file*, or ``'-'``
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and ``0o666`` respectively. If *backtick* is true, zeros are represented by
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``'`'`` instead of spaces.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.7
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Added the *backtick* parameter.
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.. function:: decode(in_file, out_file=None, mode=None, quiet=False)
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This call decodes uuencoded file *in_file* placing the result on file
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*out_file*. If *out_file* is a pathname, *mode* is used to set the permission
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bits if the file must be created. Defaults for *out_file* and *mode* are taken
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from the uuencode header. However, if the file specified in the header already
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exists, a :exc:`uu.Error` is raised.
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:func:`decode` may print a warning to standard error if the input was produced
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by an incorrect uuencoder and Python could recover from that error. Setting
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*quiet* to a true value silences this warning.
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.. exception:: Error()
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Subclass of :exc:`Exception`, this can be raised by :func:`uu.decode` under
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various situations, such as described above, but also including a badly
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formatted header, or truncated input file.
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.. seealso::
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Module :mod:`binascii`
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Support module containing ASCII-to-binary and binary-to-ASCII conversions.
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