Why isn't .ico file defined when setting window's icon?

Question

When I tried to change the window icon in the top left corner from the ugly red \"TK\" to my own favicon using the code below, Python threw an error:

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Answer 1

No way what is suggested here works - the error "bitmap xxx not defined" is ever present. And yes, I set the correct path to it.

What it did work is this:

imgicon = PhotoImage(file=os.path.join(sp,'myicon.gif'))
root.tk.call('wm', 'iconphoto', root._w, imgicon)  

where sp is the script path, and root the Tk root window.

It's hard to understand how it does work (I shamelessly copied it from fedoraforums) but it works