Add docstring for load_function

4798a469 · Calen Pennington · 3b36fbf9 · 4798a469
Commit 4798a469 authored Aug 16, 2012 by Calen Pennington
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common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/django.py
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--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/django.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/django.py
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ FUNCTION_KEYS = ['render_template']


 def load_function(path):
+    """
+    Load a function by name.
+
+    path is a string of the form "path.to.module.function"
+    returns the imported python object `function` from `path.to.module`
+    """
    module_path, _, name = path.rpartition('.')
    return getattr(import_module(module_path), name)