Module: `utils.importstring`

A simple utility to import something by its string name.

1 Function

IPython.utils.importstring.import_item(name: str) → Any

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 – The module that was imported.
Return type:: module object