Dynamically import a method in a file, from a string

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From Python 2.7 you can use the importlib.import_module() function. You can import a module and access an object defined within it with the following code:

from importlib import import_module

p, m = name.rsplit('.', 1)

mod = import_module(p)
met = getattr(mod, m)

met()

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