Why doesn't the uu module give you the filename?

[Martin v. Löwis]

Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> writes:

> While it's simple enough to get the uu module to uudecode a string
> (using StringIO), it's impossible to get it to handle you the filename
> the uuencoded thing specifies.

Because nobody thought of this before. Please do submit a patch,
including changes to documentation. Please make the patch backwards
compatible if possible.

Regards,
Martin