Chilkat2-Python
Chilkat2-Python
Count the Attachments in an Email
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Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumAttachments property, which is the number of ordinary attachments in the email. Attachment indexes are zero-based. Related resources inside a multipart/related enclosure are counted separately by NumRelatedItems, and embedded message/rfc822 emails by NumAttachedMessages. This example adds two attachments and prints the count.
Background: An "attachment" is a MIME part meant to be saved or opened as a separate file, as opposed to being displayed as the message body. Chilkat decides whether a part is an attachment by weighing its MIME structure, content type, and
Content-Disposition together — so a part can count as an attachment even without an explicit Content-Disposition: attachment header. Note that if an email was downloaded from an IMAP server without its attachment data, this property reflects only what is actually present in the object.Chilkat Chilkat2-Python Downloads
import chilkat2
# Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumAttachments property, which is the number
# of ordinary attachments contained in the email. Attachment indexes are zero-based.
email = chilkat2.Email()
email.Subject = "Email with attachments"
email.Body = "Two files are attached."
# Add two string attachments.
email.AddStringAttachment("readme.txt","This is the first attachment.")
email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","This is the second attachment.")
print("NumAttachments = " + str(email.NumAttachments))