'Resolve the :term:`dotted Python name` ``dotted`` to a
global Python object.  If ``dotted`` is not a string, return
it without attempting to do any name resolution.  If
``dotted`` is a relative dotted name (e.g. ``.foo.bar``,
consider it relative to the ``package`` argument supplied to
this Configurator\'s constructor.'

def maybe_dotted(self, dotted):

    return self.name_resolver.maybe_resolve(dotted)
