merge a file as a text-chunk into a given png, Usage: merge_into_png.py <file> <png>

merge_into_png.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""

Length   Chunk type 	Chunk data 	CRC
4 bytes 	4 bytes 	Length bytes 	4 bytes



 89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A


"""
import struct
import zlib
import posixpath

from sys import argv, stdin

if len(argv) == 3:
    if posixpath.exists(argv[1]) and posixpath.exists(argv[2]):
	iname = argv[1]
	pname = argv[2]
    else:
	print "files do not exist"
	raise SystemExit

    
else: # usage
    print "Usage: %s <file> <png>" % argv[0]
    print "\tReads data from <file> and appends its data as text-chunk as second-to-last chunk to the given PNG file"
    print "\t(last chunk is always the magic PNG ending)"
    raise SystemExit

ihandle = open(iname, "rb")
input_data = ihandle.read()
ihandle.close()


f = open(pname, 'rb')
img_data = f.read()
#size = f.tell()
f.seek(0)
header = f.read(8)

try:
    assert header == "\x89\x50\x4E\x47\x0D\x0A\x1A\x0A"
except:
    print pname, "is not a valid PNG"
    raise SystemExit
f.close()

# check for last chunk
iend_index = img_data.index("IEND")-4
img_data_pre = img_data[:iend_index]
img_data_post = img_data[iend_index:]

# new chunk
length = struct.pack(">I", len(input_data))
chunktype = "tEXt"
chunk_crc = zlib.crc32(chunktype)
chunk_crc = zlib.crc32(input_data, chunk_crc)
chunk_crc  &= 2**32 - 1 # see # http://bugs.python.org/issue1202, lol
chunk_crc = struct.pack("!I", chunk_crc)
newchunk = (length + chunktype + input_data + chunk_crc)

# new image = old image + new chunk before "end of image" chunk
new_image = img_data_pre + newchunk + img_data_post

newfile = open(iname+'.png','wb')
newfile.write(new_image)
newfile.close()
print "written to", iname+'.png'