Module: utils.importstring

A simple utility to import something by its string name.

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 – The module that was imported.
Return type:module object