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More work on componentizing everything....
More work on componentizing everything. I have also done some work on component: * componenets whose __init__ method fails are now unregistered. * Added a masquerade_as function to enable components to masquerade as one another. This is really a cheap and informal way of doing parts of an interface system.

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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