uuDecode problem

[py]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> binascii.b2a_uu only works for up to 45 bytes at once; but if you were
> feeding it more than 45 bytes, this should raise a binascii.Error
> itself.
> Definitely not, given the above limit.  But I still don't quite
> understand the exact mechanics of the error you're getting.
>
>
> Alex

here is an example.

def doSomething():
    data = aFile.readlines()
    result = []
    for x in data:
        result.append(encode(x))
    return result

def printResult(encodedData):
    """encodedData is a list of strings which are uu encoded"""
    print decode(encodedData)

encode(data):
    """data is a string"""
    if len(data) > 45:
        tmp = []
        for c in data:
            tmp.append(binascii.b2a_uu(c))
        return ''.join(tmp)
    else:
        return binascii.b2a_uu(data)


decode(data):
    """data is a list of strings"""
    result = []
    for val in data
        if len(val) > 45:
            response = []
            for x in val:
                response.append(binascii.a2b_uu(x))
            result.append(response)
        else:
            result.append(binascii.a2b_uu(val))
    return ''.join(result)

...i would use those functions like

data = doSomething()
printResult(data)

Now i get this...
"    response.append(binascii.a2b_uu(x))
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsExcep
tion: String index out of range: 1"

So the error is in the decode method .....this is in Jython...perhaps
Jython doesn't handle binascii.a2b_uu ?  or perhaps since the actual
data is being encoded in python, then read in and decoded in my jython
script..that could be the problem?

thanks.