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Remove embed tests that can't be part of an automatic test suite. Proper tests for embedding should be built that don't block on user input, this was useless for an automated test suite.

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importstring.py
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# 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