import tempfile

# byte literal code for a transparent icon, I think
ICON = (b'x00x00x01x00x01x00x10x10x00x00x01x00x08x00hx05x00x00'
        b'x16x00x00x00(x00x00x00x10x00x00x00 x00x00x00x01x00'
        b'x08x00x00x00x00x00@x05x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00'
        b'x00x01x00x00x00x01') + b'x00'*1282 + b'xff'*64

# makes a temp file for the transparent icon and saves it
_, ICON_PATH = tempfile.mkstemp()
with open(ICON_PATH, 'wb') as icon_file:
    icon_file.write(ICON)

import tempfile, base64, io

# byte literal code for a transparent icon, I think
ICON = (b'x00x00x01x00x01x00x10x10x00x00x01x00x08x00hx05x00x00'
        b'x16x00x00x00(x00x00x00x10x00x00x00 x00x00x00x01x00'
        b'x08x00x00x00x00x00@x05x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00'
        b'x00x01x00x00x00x01') + b'x00'*1282 + b'xff'*64

# makes a temp file for the transparent icon and saves it
_, ICON_PATH = tempfile.mkstemp()
with open(ICON_PATH, 'wb') as icon_file:
    icon_file.write(ICON)

a = open(ICON_PATH, 'rb').read()

b = base64.b64encode(a)

print b # output does not match what ICON equals above

# doesn't work -- gives error UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 1342: invalid start byte
#b = bytes(a).decode('utf-8')

c = bytearray(a)

print c # prints garbled junk


# gives error AttributeError: __exit__ on Image.open(ICON_PATH) line
with io.BytesIO() as output:
    from PIL import Image
    with Image.open(ICON_PATH) as img:
        img.convert('RGB').save(output, 'BMP')
    data = output.getvalue()[14:]
    print data

print(repr(a))

import zlib
print(repr(zlib.compress(a)))

import zlib

ICON = zlib.decompress(b'xx9cc``x04Bx01x01x06 xc9xc1x90xc1xcaxc0 '
    b'xc6xc0xc0xa0x01xc4@!x06x05x06x888x088xb02 x00#x14x8fx82'
    b'Q0nFxc1x08x05xff)x04x00Uxf1Ax17')

import base64, zlib

print(repr(base64.b64encode(zlib.compress(a))))

import base64, zlib

ICON = zlib.decompress(base64.b64decode('eJxjYGAEQgEBBiDJwZDBy'
    'sAgxsDAoAHEQCEGBQaIOAg4sDIgACMUj4JRMApGwQgF/ykEAFXxQRc='))

import base64

print(base64.b64encode(png_icon))

PNG_ICON = base64.b64decode( ** insert literal here ** )

print(repr(a.encode('zlib').encode('base64')))

ICON = ('eJxjYGAEQgEBBiDJwZDBysAgxsDAoAHEQCEGBQaIOAg4sDIgACMUj4J'
    'RMApGwQgF/ykEAFXxQRc=').decode('base64').decode('zlib')

from itertools import izip
import tempfile

# byte literal code for a transparent icon, I think
ICON = (b'x00x00x01x00x01x00x10x10x00x00x01x00x08x00hx05x00x00'
        b'x16x00x00x00(x00x00x00x10x00x00x00 x00x00x00x01x00'
        b'x08x00x00x00x00x00@x05x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00'
        b'x00x01x00x00x00x01') + b'x00'*1282 + b'xff'*64

# make a temp file from ICON data for testing
_, ICON_PATH = tempfile.mkstemp()
with open(ICON_PATH, 'wb') as icon_file:
    icon_file.write(ICON)

# Convert raw data in the file into a valid Python string literal.

# helper function
def grouper(n, seq):
    "s -> (s0,s1,...sn-1), (sn,sn+1,...s2n-1), (s2n,s2n+1,...s3n-1), ..."
    for i in xrange(0, len(seq), n):
        yield seq[i:i+n]

# read data file in binary mode
a = open(ICON_PATH, 'rb').read()

# create Python code to define string literal
code = 'n'.join(['ICON2 = ('] +
                 ['    '+repr(group) for group in grouper(16, a)] +
                 [')'])

print 'len(ICON): {}'.format(len(ICON))
print 'len(a): {}'.format(len(a))
print code
exec(code)
print
print 'len(ICON2): {}'.format(len(ICON2))
print 'ICON2 == ICON: {}'.format(ICON2 == ICON)

import tempfile, base64, io

# byte literal code for a transparent icon, I think
ICON = (b'x00x00x01x00x01x00x10x10x00x00x01x00x08x00hx05x00x00'
        b'x16x00x00x00(x00x00x00x10x00x00x00 x00x00x00x01x00'
        b'x08x00x00x00x00x00@x05x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00'
        b'x00x01x00x00x00x01') + b'x00'*1282 + b'xff'*64

# makes a temp file for the transparent icon and saves it
_, ICON_PATH = tempfile.mkstemp()
with open(ICON_PATH, 'wb') as icon_file:
    icon_file.write(ICON)

with open(ICON_PATH, 'rb') as imgFile:
    a = imgFile.read()

b = base64.b64encode(a)

print b # output does not match what ICON equals above

with open('test.png','wb') as writeFile:
    writeFile.write(b.decode('base64'))