diff --git a/IPython/utils/eventful.py b/IPython/utils/eventful.py
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+++ b/IPython/utils/eventful.py
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+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from warnings import warn
+
+warn("IPython.utils.eventful has moved to traitlets.eventful")
+
+from traitlets.eventful import *