Does anybody know a way to embed an icon in a Python script such that when I create my standalone executable (using pyinstaller) I don't need to include the .ico file? I know this is possible with py2exe, but in my case I have to use Pyinstaller, as I was not successful using the former. I am using Tkinter.
I know about iconbitmap(iconName.ico) but that doesn't work if I wanna make a onefile executable.
Actually the function iconbitmap can only receive a filename as argument, so there needs to be a file there. You can make a Base64 version of the icon (A string version) following the link, uploading the file and copying the result in your source file as a variable string. Extract it to a temporal file, finally passing that file to iconbitmap and deleting it. It's quite simple:
import base64
import os
from Tkinter import *
##The Base64 icon version as a string
icon = \
""" REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR BASE64 VERSION OF THE ICON
"""
icondata= base64.b64decode(icon)
## The temp file is icon.ico
tempFile= "icon.ico"
iconfile= open(tempFile,"wb")
## Extract the icon
iconfile.write(icondata)
iconfile.close()
root = Tk()
root.wm_iconbitmap(tempFile)
## Delete the tempfile
os.remove(tempFile)
Hope it helps!
You probably don't need this but somebody else might find this useful, I found you can do it without creating a file:
import Tkinter as tk
icon = """
REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR BASE64 VERSION OF THE ICON
"""
root = tk.Tk()
img = tk.PhotoImage(data=icon)
root.tk.call('wm', 'iconphoto', root._w, img)
Edit your .spec file like this:
a = Analysis(....)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure, ....)
exe = EXE(pyz,
a.scripts,
a.binaries + [('<name.ico>', '<full_path_to_your.ico>', 'DATA')],
a.zipfiles,
a.datas, ....)
Add this right after root = Tk() in the main script:
root.iconbitmap(default=os.path.join(sys.prefix if hasattr(sys, "frozen") else os.path.dirname(__file__), "<name.ico>"))
Import base64 and add this right after root = Tk() in the main script:
root.wm_iconphoto(True, PhotoImage(data=base64.b64decode("""<BASE64_of_your_png_icon>""")) )
My versions: python3.4, pyinstaller3.1.1
path_to_your.ico instead of absolute path and it's working like a charm.
This worked for me:
from tkinter import PhotoImage
import base64
img = """
REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR BASE64 VERSION OF THE ICON
"""
img= base64.b64decode(img)
root = Tk()
img=PhotoImage(data=img)
root.wm_iconphoto(True, img)
import Tkinter as tk
icon = """
REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR BASE64 VERSION OF THE ICON
"""
root = tk.Tk()
root.iconphoto(True, PhotoImage(data=icon))
Convert a .png file instead of an icon, also using utf-8 encoding with the same code above worked great for me!
There is a easier and more efficient way to solving this issue.
Since you have:
root.iconbitmap("icon.ico")
And since it is using the file from the same directory as the EXE file all you have to do is copy the file and put it in the same directory as the application.
