a dependent import) failing.  This can be helpful to determine
    whether any actual application code was run.  For example, to distiguish
    administrative error (entering the wrong module name), from programmer
    error (writing buggy code in a module that fails to import).

    @param importName: The name of the module to import.
    @type importName: C{str}
    @raise Exception: if something bad happens.  This can be any type of
        exception, since nobody knows what loading some arbitrary code might
        do.
    @raise _NoModuleFound: if no module was found.
    r