Helper function which can be used to import a python object. path should be the absolute dotted path to the object. You can optionally pass fail_silently=True if the function should not raise an Exception in case of a failure to import the object:
MyClass = get_object('module.MyClass')
myfunc = get_object('anothermodule.module2.my_function', fail_silently=True)
Converts a list of 2-tuples to a dict.