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Experience of Python's “PEP-302 New Import Hooks”

I'm one of the developers of Ruby (CRuby). We are working on Ruby 2.0 release (planned to release 2012/Feb). Python has "PEP302: New Import Hooks" (2003): This PEP proposes to add a new set of ...
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Development Patterns for dealing with Data Import / Export

I have a ASP.NET web based application that allows the end user to export data to a flat file format. (essentially taking a point-in-time backup of their work) At a later date they can re-upload ...
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When to import names into the global namespace? (using x::y, from x import y etc.)

I've been programming in various languages for about 10 years now. And I still haven't figured out when it is a good idea to import something into the global namespace (using x::y in C++, from x ...
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Script/tool to import series of snapshots, each being a new edition, into GIT, populating source tree?

I've developed code locally and taken a fairly regular snapshot whenever I reach a significant point in development, e.g. a working build. So I have a long-ish list of about 40 folders, each folder ...
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Ideal “intermediate” file format to use for structured/styled text?

I have files that I want to make available in an variety of formats: HTML PDF EPUB Plain Text (maybe) Most of the files will be sourced in doc, docx, or rtf format, so that needs to be considered. ...
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Script/tool to import series of snapshots, each being a new revision, into Subversion, populating source tree?

(NOTE: Also asked on stackoverflow.com - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4604365/script-tool-to-import-series-of-snapshots-each-being-a-new-revision-into-subver since programmers includes ...
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Importing java.awt.* does not automattically imports java.awt.event.*?

In the Java programming language, why does importing of java.awt.* does not automatically import java.awt.event.* too? Now, you guys may say that it's because it's java.awt.* and not something like ...