# Taken from Python 2.7 with permission from/by the original author. import warnings import sys from django.utils import six warnings.warn("django.utils.importlib will be removed in Django 1.9.", PendingDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2) def _resolve_name(name, package, level): """Return the absolute name of the module to be imported.""" if not hasattr(package, 'rindex'): raise ValueError("'package' not set to a string") dot = len(package) for x in range(level, 1, -1): try: dot = package.rindex('.', 0, dot) except ValueError: raise ValueError("attempted relative import beyond top-level package") return "%s.%s" % (package[:dot], name) if six.PY3: from importlib import import_module else: def import_module(name, package=None): """Import a module. The 'package' argument is required when performing a relative import. It specifies the package to use as the anchor point from which to resolve the relative import to an absolute import. """ if name.startswith('.'): if not package: raise TypeError("relative imports require the 'package' argument") level = 0 for character in name: if character != '.': break level += 1 name = _resolve_name(name[level:], package, level) __import__(name) return sys.modules[name]