IconFinder

Purpose

This package is a simple tool intended to easily, given the path for some executable in any of the "Big Three" most used OSes, provide the path to the icon for that executable.

For example, you can use it to fill a list view for a launcher with the icons from the applications you wish to execute.

Usage

There are two modules in this package. One is 'finder' with Finder class, which, through the constructor iconfinder.Finder('path/to/some/executable') will return the path to the executable icon_filepath. The other is 'extractor' which has the Extractor class, which, through the constructor iconfinder.Extractor('path/to/an/icon') will return the icon as a PIL Image object icon_image. If you use Finder to get the icon path, you can simply use the method grab from the finder instance. For example, under Windows:

>>> from iconfinder import finder
>>> finder_instance = finder.Finder('C:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe')
>>> finder_instance.icon_filepath # this is the path to the icon
>>> finder_instance.grab() # this is the icon as a PIL Image object

Note: on Windows is not necessary to use first class Finder since the icon comes inside the binary.

Dependencies

This library is dependent, under Windows, of the pywin32 package. Under Linux, uses pyxdg, and under the mac, the plistlib, which cames pre-packaged with the Python Standard Library. Of course, Pillow is also a dependency.

Testing from command line

To run the unit tests, clone the repo and execute pytest from the main directory. To get a taste of the library, you can run python -m iconfinder.finder or just iconfinder with the executable path from the main directory. Specifying test as the argument will perform a test with a default executable and quit.