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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+# ink/stitch
+#
+# stub.py: pyinstaller execution stub
+#
+# pyinstaller packages the inkstitch extensions into nice tidy executables.
+# That's great, but Inkscape can't execute a plain binary as an extension(!).
+#
+# This Python script exists only to execute the actual extension binary.  It
+# can be copied to, e.g., "embroider_params.py", in which case it will look
+# for a binary at inkstitch/bin/embroider_params.
+
+script_name = os.path.basename(__file__)
+
+if script_name.endswith('.py'):
+    binary_name = script_name[:-3]
+else:
+    # Probably not right, but we can at least try.
+    binary_name = script_name
+
+binary_path = os.path.join("inkstitch", "bin", binary_name)
+
+args = sys.argv[:]
+args[0] = binary_path
+
+os.execv(binary_path, args)