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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 finally got around to installing 2.4, and (unfortunately)
it seems as though absolute_import is not offered in the
__future__ module.  What happened?  I thought PEP 328 was
accepted for inclusion in 2.4.  Did someone not have the
time to write the import hook?