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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 my_import(name):
 """Helper function for walking import calls when searching for classes by string names. """

    mod = __import__(name)
    components = name.split('.')
    for comp in components[1:]:
        mod = getattr(mod, comp)
    return mod