Chilkat2-Python
Chilkat2-Python
Save a Single Email Attachment to Disk
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given zero-based index to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them. This example adds an attachment and saves it.
Background: Where
SaveAllAttachments writes every attachment at once, SaveAttachedFile saves just one by index — useful when you have inspected the attachments (by type, name, or size) and want to extract only a specific file. The attachment keeps its own filename; the same filename-safety considerations apply as when saving all of them.Chilkat Chilkat2-Python Downloads
import sys
import chilkat2
success = False
# Demonstrates the SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given
# zero-based index to a directory. If the directory (or any of its components) does not
# exist, Chilkat creates it.
email = chilkat2.Email()
email.Subject = "Save one attachment"
email.AddStringAttachment("report.txt","Attachment content.")
# Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
success = email.SaveAttachedFile(0,"qa_output/attachments")
if (success == False):
print(email.LastErrorText)
sys.exit()
print("Saved attachment 0.")
# Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
# relative to the current working directory of the running application.