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Aliases fixes: ls alias improvements and frontend-dependent fixes....
Aliases fixes: ls alias improvements and frontend-dependent fixes. Isolated some aliases to the classes that can only run in certain frontends, so we don't try to call 'clear' on the Qt terminal (which doeesn't work).

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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