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More work addressing review comments for Fernando's branch. * :mod:`IPython.testing.globalipapp` now directly creates a :class:`~IPython.core.iplib.InteractiveShell` instance by passing it a configuration object, rather than creating an IPython application. * Updated everything in :mod:`IPython.frontend` and :mod:`IPython.gui` to use raw :class:`~IPython.core.iplib.InteractiveShell directly rather than creating an IPython application. * Updated the IPython sphinx extension to use raw :class:`~IPython.core.iplib.InteractiveShell directly rather than creating an IPython application. * Removed code from :mod:`IPython.extensions.pretty` that called :func:`get_ipython` (r1271). * Addressed comment on (r1284) about holding refs to deferreds in :mod:`IPython.kernel.ipclusterapp`. * Removed :mod:`IPython.kernel` from list of modules tested by nose in :mod:`IPython.testing.iptest`. (r1318)

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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