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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def _import(self, name):
        ''' Import namespace package '''
        mod = __import__(name)
        components = name.split('.')
        for comp in components[1:]:
            mod = getattr(mod, comp)
        return mod