Python in a Nutshell

Name

encode

Synopsis

encode(infile,outfile,name='-',mode=0666)

Reads file-like object infile, by calling infile .read (for a few bytes at a time—the amount of data that UU encodes into a single output line) until end of file (i.e, until a call to infile .read returns an empty string). Then it encodes the data thus read in UU, and writes the encoded text to file-like object outfile. encode also writes a UU begin line before the encoded text, and a UU end line after the encoded text. In the begin line, encode specifies the filename as name and the mode as mode.