Is there a Python library for generating .ico files? [closed]

Question

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

Answer 1

You can use Pillow:

from PIL import Image filename = r'logo.png' img = Image.open(filename) img.save('logo.ico') 

Optionally, you may specify the icon sizes you want:

icon_sizes = [(16,16), (32, 32), (48, 48), (64,64)] img.save('logo.ico', sizes=icon_sizes) 

The Pillow docs say that by default it will generate sizes [(16, 16), (24, 24), (32, 32), (48, 48), (64, 64), (128, 128), (255, 255)] and any size bigger than the original size or 255 will be ignored.

Yes, it is in the Read-only section of the docs, but it works to some extent.

Answer 2

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.