From 7067c17302d2f406d460d03575d7319d7a8b73b8 2012-06-08 00:21:31
From: Bradley M. Froehle <brad.froehle@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-06-08 00:21:31
Subject: [PATCH] Remove importlib dependency which not available in Python 2.6.

Since we are only doing an absolute import, it suffices to just run
`__import__(name)` and then find the module in `sys.modules`.

Closes #1874.

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diff --git a/IPython/extensions/cythonmagic.py b/IPython/extensions/cythonmagic.py
index 27bd158..e89bb0b 100644
--- a/IPython/extensions/cythonmagic.py
+++ b/IPython/extensions/cythonmagic.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ Parts of this code were taken from Cython.inline.
 
 import io
 import os, sys
-from importlib import import_module
 import imp
 
 try:
@@ -101,7 +100,8 @@ class CythonMagics(Magics):
             module = self._reloads[module_name]
             reload(module)
         else:
-            module = import_module(module_name)
+            __import__(module_name)
+            module = sys.modules[module_name]
             self._reloads[module_name] = module
         self._import_all(module)