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+# -*- tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; py-indent-offset: 4 -*-
+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+
+import argparse
+import uno
+from com.sun.star.connection import NoConnectException
+from os.path import isfile, abspath, basename
+from sys import argv
+
+
+def is_file(value):
+    if not isfile(value):
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError("{} could not be opened".format(value))
+    return value
+
+
+PROG = "$OFFICE_PROGRAM_PATH/python {}".format(basename(argv[0]))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=PROG)
+    parser.add_argument("--writer", action="store_true", required=False, help="Open an empty Writer document")
+    parser.add_argument("--calc", action="store_true", required=False, help="Open an empty Calc document")
+    parser.add_argument("--draw", action="store_true", required=False, help="Open an empty Draw document")
+    parser.add_argument("path",
+                        type=is_file,
+                        nargs="?",
+                        help="Path to a document to load. If omitted, an empty document is opened accordingly.")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    # UNO component context for initializing the Python runtime
+    localContext = uno.getComponentContext()
+
+    # Create an instance of a service implementation
+    resolver = localContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
+        "com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", localContext)
+
+    try:
+        context = resolver.resolve(
+            "uno:socket,host=localhost,"
+            "port=2083;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext")
+    except NoConnectException:
+        raise Exception("Error: cannot establish a connection to LibreOffice.")
+
+    desktop = context.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
+        "com.sun.star.frame.Desktop", context)
+
+    if args.path:
+        url = uno.systemPathToFileUrl(abspath(args.path))
+    elif args.writer:
+        url = "private:factory/swriter"
+    elif args.calc:
+        url = "private:factory/scalc"
+    elif args.draw:
+        url = "private:factory/sdraw"
+    else:
+        url = "private:factory/swriter"
+
+    # Load a LibreOffice document, and automatically display it on the screen
+    xComp = desktop.loadComponentFromURL(url, "_blank", 0, tuple([]))
+
+# vim: set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: