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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 stringfoo.bar
.Calling
bar = import_item("foo.bar")
is the functional equivalent of executing the codefrom 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