ÆComputerVision

I wanted to make a file browser which has the correct file icons for each file type, instead of just getting them from the file name. This is a bad solution, since it has to call images from disc and may be wrong if the name is different. This method uses the Windows API to get the exact icon. Tested in Python 3.6 in Windows 10. from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon from PIL import Image, ImageTk import win32api import win32con import win32ui import win32gui def get_icon(PATH, size): SHGFI_ICON = 0x000000100 SHGFI_ICONLOCATION = 0x000001000 if size == "small": SHIL_SIZE= 0x00001 elif size == "large": SHIL_SIZE= 0x00002 else: raise TypeError("Invalid argument for 'size'. Must be equal to 'small' or 'large'") ret, info = shell.SHGetFileInfo(PATH, 0, SHGFI_ICONLOCATION | SHGFI_ICON | SHIL_SIZE) hIcon, iIcon, dwAttr, name, typeName = info ico_x =