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+"""
+Shim to maintain backwards compatibility with old IPython.html imports.
+"""
+# Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
+# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
+
+import sys
+from warnings import warn
+
+warn("The `IPython.html` package has been deprecated. "
+     "You should import from jupyter_notebook instead.")
+
+from IPython.utils.shimmodule import ShimModule
+
+sys.modules['IPython.html'] = ShimModule(
+    src='IPython.html', mirror='jupyter_notebook')
+