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Hello, I am trying to make a desktop icon for a newbie script I wrote while Teaching myself Python. I wanted it to be a clickable desktop icon for OS X.

Plus, I guess I can use Icon Composer to make it a pic.

Any ideas?!
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I'm confused, are you creating the icon in Python with code, or...?
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oh, no.... I wrote a backup script and wanted it to be executed from an icon on the desktop... not sure if there is a sort of module for making an icon with python or should I use something else and if so, wondering what else.
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Ah. Have you looked at py2app? This might be a little overkill for a backup script, but if you can't find anything else...

Also I'm not sure these work on Mac, but maybe you can create a symbolic link (shortcut) to the script and change its icon?
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Thanks, I'll try it today!
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seems like its for python 2.6...

I wrote it in 3.0
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