Is there a Python library for generating .ico files?

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

From stackoverflow Hank Gay

• 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.

  From codeape

• 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

  From thing2k

• 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...

  From Douglas Leeder