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+"""
+Copyright (C) 2008-2023 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+
+This file is part of VirtualBox base platform packages, as
+available from https://www.virtualbox.org.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 3 of the
+License.
+
+This program 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
+General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+"""
+
+import xpcom
+import sys
+import platform
+
+#
+# This code overcomes somewhat unlucky feature of Python, where it searches
+# for binaries in the same place as platfom independent modules, while
+# rest of Python bindings expect _xpcom to be inside xpcom module
+#
+
+_asVBoxPythons = [
+    'VBoxPython' + str(sys.version_info[0]) + '_' + str(sys.version_info[1]),
+    'VBoxPython' + str(sys.version_info[0]),
+    'VBoxPython'
+]
+
+# For Python 3.2 and later use the right ABI flag suffix for the module.
+if sys.hexversion >= 0x030200f0 and sys.abiflags:
+    _asNew = []
+    for sCandidate in _asVBoxPythons:
+        if sCandidate[-1:].isdigit():
+            _asNew.append(sCandidate + sys.abiflags)
+        else:
+            _asNew.append(sCandidate)
+    _asVBoxPythons = _asNew
+    del _asNew
+
+# On platforms where we ship both 32-bit and 64-bit API bindings, we have to
+# look for the right set if we're a 32-bit process.
+if platform.system() in [ 'SunOS', ] and sys.maxsize <= 2**32:
+    _asNew = [ sCandidate + '_x86' for sCandidate in _asVBoxPythons ]
+    _asNew.extend(_asVBoxPythons)
+    _asVBoxPythons = _asNew
+    del _asNew
+
+# On Darwin (aka Mac OS X) we know exactly where things are in a normal
+# VirtualBox installation.
+## @todo Edit this at build time to the actual VBox location set in the make files.
+## @todo We know the location for most hardened builds, not just darwin!
+if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+    sys.path.append('/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS')
+
+_oVBoxPythonMod = None
+for m in _asVBoxPythons:
+    try:
+        _oVBoxPythonMod =  __import__(m)
+        break
+    except:
+        pass
+    #except Exception as x:
+    #    print('m=%s x=%s' % (m, x))
+
+if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+    sys.path.remove('/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS')
+
+if _oVBoxPythonMod == None:
+    raise Exception('Cannot find VBoxPython module (tried: %s)' % (', '.join(_asVBoxPythons),))
+
+sys.modules['xpcom._xpcom'] = _oVBoxPythonMod
+xpcom._xpcom = _oVBoxPythonMod
+