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Modifies Contents API to return Error objects Modfies the Contents class to return JavaScript Error objects instead of passing on the return values from $.ajax(). This has two advantages. First, it allows the content manager to parse errors and give more informative messages than the ajax response. Second, it makes the Contents interface more general, since other kinds of backends might generate client-side errors.

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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) 2008-2011 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``.
Calling ``bar = import_item("foo.bar")`` is the functional equivalent of
executing the code ``from foo import bar``.
Parameters
----------
name : string
The fully qualified name of the module/package being imported.
Returns
-------
mod : module object
The module that was imported.
"""
parts = name.rsplit('.', 1)
if len(parts) == 2:
# called with 'foo.bar....'
package, obj = parts
module = __import__(package, fromlist=[obj])
try:
pak = module.__dict__[obj]
except KeyError:
raise ImportError('No module named %s' % obj)
return pak
else:
# called with un-dotted string
return __import__(parts[0])