[Win32] Retrieve icon for file type?

[Mike Fletcher]

I'm attempting to use the Windows registry to retrieve (and convert to a
PNG/JPEG) the Windows icons for given files (so that a Windows-based server
can display file-type-specific icons).  I do not seem to be able to find the
function shellapi.ExtractIcon (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winui/icons_7h2m.htm ) in the Win32
extensions.

Is there an easy way to get at the Shell icons from Python?

def query ( extension):
	''' get icon for the given extension '''
	try:
		path = win32api.RegQueryValue(
			HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,
			extension,
		)
		filedata = win32api.RegQueryValue(
			HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,
			'%s\\DefaultIcon'%(path),
		)
		# how do I load the icon data?
		# ExtractIcon?
	except win32api.error:
		return None

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 Mike C. Fletcher
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