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> A literal reading of "Guido's Decision" in PEP 328 says that
> if absolute imports were implemented, then the only thing
> missing is a future import, and an __init__.py file in the
> same path as email.py.

I don't think this __init__.py file had been mentioned before.  However, 
even if it is there, THE DIRECTORY CONTAINING email.py IS ON 
sys.path!  What's hard to understand about this?

> I finally got around to installing 2.4, and (unfortunately)
> it seems as though absolute_import is not offered in the
> __future__ module.  What happened? 

It's awaiting an implementation, AFAIK.