Is there a Python library for generating .ico files?

Question

I'm looking to create favicon.ico files programatically from Python, but PIL only has support for reading ico files.

Answer 1

Perhaps the following would work:

• Generate your icon image using PIL
• Convert the image to .ico format using the python interface to ImageMagick, PythonMagick

I have not tried this approach. The ImageMagick convert command line program was able to convert a .png file to .ico format, so at least ImageMagick supports the .ico format.

Answer 2

I don't know if this applies for all cases, but on WinXP an .ico can be a bmp of size 16x16, 32x32 or 64x64. Just change the extension to ico from bmp and you're ready to go.

Hope this helps

thing2k

Answer 3

According to Wikipedia modern browsers can handle favicons in PNG format, so maybe you could just generate that?

Alternatively the ICO article describes the format...