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Add pexpect version 2.3 (revision 507) to IPython.external....
Add pexpect version 2.3 (revision 507) to IPython.external. We will only use our copy if the system-installed one isn't found. This lets us run the core of ipython on top of the stdlib, while having far better subprocess control than we otherwise would on posix. On windows, pexpect doesn't exist, so the subprocess situation is still not ideal. pexpect is MIT-licensed. For more information on pexpect: http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect

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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