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Manage and propagate argv correctly....
Manage and propagate argv correctly. All Application objects should take argv in their constructor, akin to how the standard signature of C programs is "main(int argc, char *argv)". This makes it possible to initialize them from code with different command-line options (otherwise, they end up directly accessing sys.argv[1:] via argparse).

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importstring.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
A simple utility to import something by its string name.
Authors:
* Brian Granger
"""
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 The IPython Development Team
#
# Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
# the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Functions and classes
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def import_item(name):
"""Import and return bar given the string foo.bar."""
package = '.'.join(name.split('.')[0:-1])
obj = name.split('.')[-1]
execString = 'from %s import %s' % (package, obj)
try:
exec execString
except SyntaxError:
raise ImportError("Invalid class specification: %s" % name)
exec 'temp = %s' % obj
return temp