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It's not hard to understand, but I could have sworn that in
the discussion about absolute imports from the spring of
last year that it wasn't just a package thing, it was
supposed to functionally do-away with "" being in sys.path
for all modules in which the future import had been performed.

It seems as though I was mistaken as to the reasons behind
the PEP, but can you blame me?  A single mechanism for
handling stdlib vs. non-stdlib imports would be great (I
would say should be the one true solution), and would solve
the 10/week questions about imports in comp.lang.python.