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Backport PR #10489: Prefer execution when there's only a single line entered...
Backport PR #10489: Prefer execution when there's only a single line entered Closes gh-10425 The heuristic here is to treat a single line specially, and always evaluate it as if the cursor was at the end. An alternative heuristic could be to do this if the cursor is on the last line of the input. This could also cause some weird effects if you e.g. type `for a in range(5):`, move the cursor back a few places and press enter - you'll get a newline inserted in the text, but it will indent as if it were after the colon. I'm still trying to think if there's a better way to approach it.

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# encoding: utf-8
"""
A simple utility to import something by its string name.
"""
# Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
def 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 : module object
The module that was imported.
"""
parts = name.rsplit('.', 1)
if len(parts) == 2:
# called with 'foo.bar....'
package, obj = parts
module = __import__(package, fromlist=[obj])
try:
pak = getattr(module, obj)
except AttributeError:
raise ImportError('No module named %s' % obj)
return pak
else:
# called with un-dotted string
return __import__(parts[0])