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A new function ``resolve_name`` has been added to the ``pkgutil`` module.
This resolves a string of the form ``'a.b.c.d'`` or ``'a.b:c.d'`` to an
object. In the example, ``a.b`` is a package/module and ``c.d`` is an object
within that package/module reached via recursive attribute access.