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+### *************************************************************************
+### *
+# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+# 
+# Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+#
+# OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite
+#
+# This file is part of OpenOffice.org.
+#
+# OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3
+# only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details
+# (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code).
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# version 3 along with OpenOffice.org.  If not, see
+# <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html>
+# for a copy of the LGPLv3 License.
+#
+### ************************************************************************/
+
+#
+# Translated to python from "Bootstrap.java" by Kim Kulak
+#
+
+import os
+import random
+from sys import platform
+from time import sleep
+
+import uno
+from com.sun.star.connection import NoConnectException
+from com.sun.star.uno import Exception as UnoException
+
+
+class BootstrapException(UnoException):
+    pass
+
+def bootstrap():
+    """Bootstrap OOo and PyUNO Runtime.
+    The soffice process is started opening a named pipe of random name, then the local context is used
+	to access the pipe. This function directly returns the remote component context, from whereon you can
+	get the ServiceManager by calling getServiceManager() on the returned object.
+	"""
+    try:
+	# soffice script used on *ix, Mac; soffice.exe used on Windoof
+        if "UNO_PATH" in os.environ:
+            sOffice = os.environ["UNO_PATH"]
+        else:
+            sOffice = "" # lets hope for the best
+        sOffice = os.path.join(sOffice, "soffice")
+        if platform.startswith("win"): 
+            sOffice += ".exe"
+		
+        # Generate a random pipe name.
+        random.seed()
+        sPipeName = "uno" + str(random.random())[2:]
+        
+        # Start the office proces, don't check for exit status since an exception is caught anyway if the office terminates unexpectedly.
+        cmdArray = (sOffice, "-nologo", "-nodefault", "".join(["-accept=pipe,name=", sPipeName, ";urp;"]))        
+        os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, sOffice, cmdArray)
+			
+        # ---------
+
+        xLocalContext = uno.getComponentContext()
+        resolver = xLocalContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
+			"com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", xLocalContext)
+        sConnect = "".join(["uno:pipe,name=", sPipeName, ";urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext"])
+
+        # Wait until an office is started, but loop only nLoop times (can we do this better???)
+        nLoop = 20
+        while True:
+            try:
+                xContext = resolver.resolve(sConnect)
+                break
+            except NoConnectException:
+                nLoop -= 1
+                if nLoop <= 0:
+                    raise BootstrapException("Cannot connect to soffice server.", None)
+                sleep(0.5)  # Sleep 1/2 second.
+
+    except BootstrapException:
+        raise     
+    except Exception, e:  # Any other exception
+        raise BootstrapException("Caught exception " + str(e), None)
+
+    return xContext