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Module Importing Utilities - kombu.utils.imports
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Import related utilities.
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kombu.utils.imports.
symbol_by_name
(name, aliases={}, imp=None, package=None, sep=u'.', default=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ Get symbol by qualified name.
The name should be the full dot-separated path to the class:
modulename.ClassName
Example:
celery.concurrency.processes.TaskPool ^- class name
or using ‘:’ to separate module and symbol:
celery.concurrency.processes:TaskPool
If aliases is provided, a dict containing short name/long name mappings, the name is looked up in the aliases first.
Examples
>>> symbol_by_name('celery.concurrency.processes.TaskPool') <class 'celery.concurrency.processes.TaskPool'>
>>> symbol_by_name('default', { ... 'default': 'celery.concurrency.processes.TaskPool'}) <class 'celery.concurrency.processes.TaskPool'>
# Does not try to look up non-string names. >>> from celery.concurrency.processes import TaskPool >>> symbol_by_name(TaskPool) is TaskPool True