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> Standard library name masking is exactly what
> the absolute imports PEP was seeking to fix

Only in the context of submodule imports within packages. Which is _not_ at 
_all_ what is being described here. There is a main _script_ called email.py 
which wants to import the email module (that email happens to be a package 
is not relevant). There is _no_ relative import going on here, it just so 
happens that the script's parent dir is in sys.path before the std lib.