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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Matt Martz <matt@sivel.net>
+# Simplified BSD License (see licenses/simplified_bsd.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import sys
+
+try:
+    from importlib import import_module
+except ImportError:
+    # importlib.import_module returns the tail
+    # whereas __import__ returns the head
+    # compat to work like importlib.import_module
+    def import_module(name):
+        __import__(name)
+        return sys.modules[name]