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Module: utils.importstring

A simple utility to import something by its string name.

Authors:

• Brian Granger

1 Function

IPython.utils.importstring.import_item(name)

Import and return bar given the string foo.bar.

Calling bar = import_item("foo.bar") is the functional equivalent of executing the code from foo import bar.

Parameters:

name : string

The fully qualified name of the module/package being imported.

Returns:

mod : module object

The module that was imported.