What is the location of the loaded theme icons?

I am creating a simple file browser in python, gtk. I need to find a way to load the icons of the current theme (ie. folder icons) and use them in my code. Is ther开发者_Python百科e a location that always holds the current icons?

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I found the answer to be in GTK Stock icons.

http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/gtk-stock-items.html