"""Tests for IPython.utils.importstring."""

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#  Copyright (C) 2013  The IPython Development Team
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#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
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# Imports
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import nose.tools as nt

from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item

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# Tests
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def test_import_plain():
    "Test simple imports"
    import os
    os2 = import_item('os')
    nt.assert_is(os, os2)


def test_import_nested():
    "Test nested imports from the stdlib"
    from os import path
    path2 = import_item('os.path')
    nt.assert_is(path, path2)


def test_import_raises():
    "Test that failing imports raise the right exception"
    nt.assert_raises(ImportError, import_item, 'IPython.foobar')
    

Add proper tests to importstring.