--- release27-maint/Lib/test/regrtest.py       2010-07-13 18:11:32.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/local/lib/python2.7/test/regrtest.py   2010-07-13 18:00:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -181,6 +181,12 @@
 # (site.py absolutize them), the __file__ and __path__ will be absolute too.
 # Therefore it is necessary to absolutize manually the __file__ and __path__ of
 # the packages to prevent later imports to fail when the CWD is different.
+
+# Email modules are imported lazily, force their import first.
+if 'email' in sys.modules:
+    [hasattr(sys.modules[name], '__foo__') for name in list(sys.modules)
+                                                if name.startswith('email.')]
+
 for module in sys.modules.itervalues():
     if hasattr(module, '__path__'):
         module.__path__ = [os.path.abspath(path) for path in module.__path__]