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Get an Attachment's Bytes into a BinData

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.

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import sys
import chilkat

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 = chilkat.CkEmail()
email.put_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 = chilkat.CkBinData()
success = email.GetAttachmentBd(0,bd)
if (success == False):
    print(email.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("Attachment size (bytes) = " + str(bd.get_NumBytes()))