Chilkat2-Python
Chilkat2-Python
Get an Attachment's Bytes into a BinData
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachmentBd method, which copies an attachment's binary data into a BinData object. The first attachment is at index 0. This example adds an attachment and copies its bytes into a BinData, printing the byte count.
Background: This is the safe, binary way to extract an attachment — the counterpart to the text-oriented
GetAttachmentString. Because attachments are often binary (PDFs, images, archives), copying the raw bytes into a BinData preserves them exactly, ready to write to a file, hash, or pass to another API without any charset conversion that could corrupt the data.Chilkat Chilkat2-Python Downloads
import sys
import chilkat2
success = False
# Demonstrates the GetAttachmentBd method, which copies an attachment's binary data into a
# BinData object. The first attachment is at index 0.
email = chilkat2.Email()
email.Subject = "GetAttachmentBd example"
email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes stored in the attachment.")
# Copy the first attachment's binary data into a BinData object.
bd = chilkat2.BinData()
success = email.GetAttachmentBd(0,bd)
if (success == False):
print(email.LastErrorText)
sys.exit()
print("Attachment size (bytes) = " + str(bd.NumBytes))