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Document object interface to HistoryManger according to our conventions....

Document object interface to HistoryManger according to our conventions. All our objects should have their interface documented at the class level before the actual constructor.

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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

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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