Chilkat2-Python

Save a Related Item to Disk

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveRelatedItem method, which saves the related item 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 a related style sheet and saves it.

Background: Related items are the inline resources (images, style sheets) an HTML email carries in its multipart/related enclosure. SaveRelatedItem writes one of them out as a file — a building block for tasks like extracting a specific embedded image, or manually unpacking a message when you want finer control than the all-in-one UnpackHtml / AspUnpack methods provide.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# Demonstrates the SaveRelatedItem method, which saves the related item 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 a related item"

# Set an HTML body that references a related style sheet by name.
email.SetHtmlBody("<html><head><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"styles.css\"/></head><body>Styled.</body></html>")
email.AddRelatedString2("styles.css","body { color: navy; }","utf-8")

# Save the related item at index 0 into the specified directory.
success = email.SaveRelatedItem(0,"qa_output/related")
if (success == False):
    print(email.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("Saved related item 0.")

# Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
# relative to the current working directory of the running application.