resolve_name

astropy.utils.introspection.resolve_name(name: str, *additional_parts: str) → object

Deprecated since version 7.0: The resolve_name function is deprecated and may be removed in a future version. Use importlib (e.g. importlib.import_module for modules) instead.

Resolve a name like module.object to an object and return it.

This ends up working like from module import object but is easier to deal with than the __import__ builtin and supports digging into submodules.

Parameters:

namestr

A dotted path to a Python object–that is, the name of a function, class, or other object in a module with the full path to that module, including parent modules, separated by dots. Also known as the fully qualified name of the object.

additional_partspython:iterable, optional

If more than one positional arguments are given, those arguments are automatically dotted together with name.

Raises:

ImportError

If the module or named object is not found.