Do not rely on notifiction module being imported This has worked so far mostly by accident, but it turned out to be brittle while writing tests. This makes sure that the notification module is always imported before use.

# use glob syntax.
syntax: glob

*.pyc
*.zip
*~
.project
.pydevproject
app.yaml
build
tests/coverageResults
*,cover
tests/.coverage
*.git
.gitignore
.DS_Store