Chilkat2-Python

Decode from Binary Encoding and Append String

Demonstrates how to decode from a binary encoding (base64, hex, url, etc.) and then append the decoded string to a Chilkat StringBuilder object.

Note: This example uses the new DecodeAndAppend method added in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

Chilkat2-Python

import chilkat2

success = False

# We have the string "MÆRSK" in two forms:

# This is the URL encoding of the windows-1252 representation.
nameWindows1252UrlEncoded = "M%C6RSK"

# This is the URL encoding of the utf-8 representation.
nameUtf8UrlEncoded = "M%C3%86RSK"

# Note that the result of loading a string into a string object 
# is the same if we correctly specify the underlying charset encoding.
# In the above example, we have the same string, but in different charset encodings
# subsequently URL encoded.
sb1 = chilkat2.StringBuilder()
success = sb1.DecodeAndAppend(nameWindows1252UrlEncoded,"url","windows-1252")

sb2 = chilkat2.StringBuilder()
success = sb2.DecodeAndAppend(nameUtf8UrlEncoded,"url","utf-8")

# sb1 and sb2 both hold the same string.
bEqual = sb1.ContentsEqualSb(sb2,True)
print("bEqual = " + str(bEqual))

# We can see the string is "MÆRSK" in both cases.
print(sb1.GetAsString())
print(sb2.GetAsString())