diff -r 39697dcd97e3 Lib/test/test_telnetlib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_telnetlib.py	Mon Aug 12 06:51:41 2013 -0700
+++ b/Lib/test/test_telnetlib.py	Tue Aug 13 17:03:01 2013 -0400
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@
         telnet.open(HOST, self.port, timeout=30)
         self.assertEqual(telnet.sock.gettimeout(), 30)
         telnet.sock.close()
+    def testGetters(self):
+        #Test telnet getter methods
+        telnet = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST, self.port, timeout=30)
+        t_sock = telnet.sock
+        self.assertEqual(telnet.get_socket(), t_sock)
+        self.assertEqual(telnet.fileno(), t_sock.fileno())
+        telnet.sock.close()
 
 class SocketStub(object):
     ''' a socket proxy that re-defines sendall() '''
diff -r 39697dcd97e3 Lib/test/test_uu.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_uu.py	Mon Aug 12 06:51:41 2013 -0700
+++ b/Lib/test/test_uu.py	Tue Aug 13 17:03:01 2013 -0400
@@ -196,6 +196,60 @@
         finally:
             self._kill(f)
 
+    def test_encode_defaults(self):
+        try:
+            f = open(self.tmpin, 'wb')
+            f.write(plaintext)
+            f.close()
+
+            uu.encode(self.tmpin, self.tmpout)
+
+            f = open(self.tmpout, 'rb')
+            data = f.read()
+            f.close()
+
+            self.assertEqual(data[27:-7], encodedtext)
+        finally:
+            self._kill(f)
+
+    @unittest.skipIf('stat' not in dir(os))
+    def test_encode_osstat_assert(self):
+        f = open(self.tmpin, 'wb')
+        f.write(plaintext)
+        f.close()
+
+        _stat = os.stat
+        try:
+            del os.stat
+            uu.encode(self.tmpin, self.tmpout)
+        finally:
+            os.stat = _stat
+
+        f = open(self.tmpout, 'rb')
+        data = f.read()
+        f.close()
+
+        self.assertEqual(int(str(data).split(' ')[1]),  666)
+        self._kill(f)
+
+    def test_encode_stdin_name(self):
+        try:
+            f = open(self.tmpin, 'wb')
+            f.write(plaintext)
+            f.close()
+
+            f = open(self.tmpin, 'rb')
+            uu.encode(f, self.tmpout)
+            f.close()
+
+            f = open(self.tmpout, 'rb')
+            data = f.read()
+            f.close()
+
+            self.assertEqual(str(data).split(' ')[2][0], '-')
+        finally:
+            self._kill(f)
+
     def test_decode_filename(self):
         f = None
         try:
diff -r 39697dcd97e3 Lib/uu.py
--- a/Lib/uu.py	Mon Aug 12 06:51:41 2013 -0700
+++ b/Lib/uu.py	Tue Aug 13 17:03:01 2013 -0400
@@ -51,11 +51,14 @@
         elif isinstance(in_file, str):
             if name is None:
                 name = os.path.basename(in_file)
+            #Set defaults for mode
             if mode is None:
                 try:
-                    mode = os.stat(in_file).st_mode
+                    mode_stat = os.stat(in_file)
                 except AttributeError:
                     pass
+                else:
+                    mode = mode_stat.st_mode
             in_file = open(in_file, 'rb')
             opened_files.append(in_file)
         #