Sync python-commons changes over the last week

This runs green:

``` console
$ ./build-support/python/clean.sh && ./pants.bootstrap
$ ./pants tests/python/twitter/common:all
$ ./pants tests/python/twitter/pants:all
```

Note the new ~/.pex layout:
``` console
$ tree -d -L 3 ~/.pex/
/home/jsirois/.pex/
└── install
    ├── 1667505e8d3f4404f9a32521cda15ed05e230708
    │   └── logilab_common-0.60.1-py2.7.egg
    ├── 166fe52b993a4ce708c74579b9885d6be9f3e018
    │   └── psutil-1.1.2-py2.7-macosx-10.4-x86_64.egg
    ├── 25db80aac9b1e2169cf6267eebbac59f7fe0b191
    │   └── requests-2.0.0-py2.7.egg
    ├── 47766cf607f6a072eb31da7960d2d40686dc7e7d
    │   └── logilab_astng-0.24.3-py2.7.egg
    ├── 4fac720d7cffb3a2fa05aef2c15114d4f56f256a
    │   └── coverage-3.6-py2.7-macosx-10.4-x86_64.egg
    ├── 7bcac12a588a7ca57b65dc37e0f9bf5bad9ead7b
    │   └── pylint-0.25.1-py2.7.egg
    ├── a17adc09a65134d6bcd167a44b96bd19977cac4e
    │   └── pytest-2.3.5-py2.7.egg
    ├── a6168101fc35b3dfef91bb45b046a4038d308616
    │   └── setuptools-2.1-py2.7.egg
    ├── c93470864d0c03a96ccd69e82be9c2b9722e743a
    │   └── psutil-1.1.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
    ├── cdb85fde15aa485376b6e44ccbd3ce55ac52772d
    │   └── Pygments-1.4-py2.7.egg
    └── d8e30dd36398ceff8187333c1dada6c6dcf1e69d
        └── coverage-3.7.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg

23 directories
$ unzip -qc pants.pex PEX-INFO | python -mjson.tool
{
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        "branch": "jsirois/sync/python-3",
        "class": "CPython",
        "datetime": "Tuesday Jan 21, 2014 07:52:44",
        "id": null,
        "machine": "gill",
        "path": "/home/jsirois/dev/3rdparty/jsirois-commons",
        "platform": "linux-x86_64",
        "revision": "692fb42a7c666acf5444c1f2ade33403ffa23a76",
        "tag": "692fb42",
        "timestamp": 1390315964.01052,
        "user": "jsirois",
        "version": [
            2,
            7,
            5
        ]
    },
    "code_hash": "c2aab9994dbfa8192a571a1d5b17bf8823ed47ca",
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        "ansicolors-1.0.2-py2.7.egg": "bb37d674fe8b33640dfa018ce9ba809c120c22d9",
        "cov_core-1.7-py2.7.egg": "3d52626f131cad445db7755e348b1909eeb69011",
        "coverage-3.6-py2.7-macosx-10.4-x86_64.egg": "4fac720d7cffb3a2fa05aef2c15114d4f56f256a",
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        "elementtree-1.2.7_20070827_preview-py2.7.egg": "f6f2fe05694c8c6935ae7cb781482e97d277c936",
        "lockfile-0.9.1-py2.7.egg": "5435da594823b2a5fada8420dfc74b9885d1ecab",
        "logilab_astng-0.24.3-py2.7.egg": "47766cf607f6a072eb31da7960d2d40686dc7e7d",
        "logilab_common-0.60.1-py2.7.egg": "1667505e8d3f4404f9a32521cda15ed05e230708",
        "psutil-1.1.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg": "c93470864d0c03a96ccd69e82be9c2b9722e743a",
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        "pylint-0.25.1-py2.7.egg": "7bcac12a588a7ca57b65dc37e0f9bf5bad9ead7b",
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        "pytest_cov-1.6-py2.7.egg": "a3781c3a7140459107fb5ed2700761bd685aba58",
        "python_daemon-1.5.5-py2.7.egg": "095f2ca5238c2e7423bf1dd657340d8f23faf510",
        "requests-2.0.0-py2.7.egg": "25db80aac9b1e2169cf6267eebbac59f7fe0b191",
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            false
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            false
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            false
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}
```