PEP 594: Mention removing uu_codec (#1244)

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uu
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uu and the uu encoding
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The `uu <https://docs.python.org/3/library/uu.html>`_ module provides
uuencode format, an old binary encoding format for email from 1980. The uu
format has been replaced by MIME. The uu codec is provided by the ``binascii``
module.
module. There's also ``encodings/uu_codec.py`` which is a codec for the
same encoding; it should also be deprecated.
Module type
pure Python