Load Binary File to an Encoded String

Demonstrates how to load a binary file directly into a string encoded as base64, hex, URL, quoted-printable, etc.

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import chilkat

fac = chilkat.CkFileAccess()

#  The 2nd argument specifies the encoding and may
#  be "base64", "hex", "url", or "qp".
encodedStr = fac.readBinaryToEncoded("sample.pdf","base64")
if (encodedStr == None ):
    print fac.lastErrorText()
else:
    print encodedStr