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avoid race condition when deleting/starting sessions...
avoid race condition when deleting/starting sessions javascript doesn't guarantee the order of AJAX requests, so we give `Session.delete` and `Kernel.kill` a callback signature. Changing the kernel type calls `Notebook.start_kernel`, which terminates the previous session, if defined, before starting the new one. A flag is stored, to prevent multiple simultaneous attempts to start sessions, raising a SessionAlreadyStarting Error, preventing the spec_changed event from firing.

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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])