Resolve a name like module.object to an object and return it.
This ends up working like from module import object but is easier to deal with than the __import__ builtin and supports digging into submodules.
Parameters: | name : str
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Raises: | `ImportError`
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Examples
>>> resolve_name('astropy.utils.introspection.resolve_name')
<function resolve_name at 0x...>