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This feature is there to enable importing java packages from
sys.path and is there since a long time. Bug in 2.2 not with
standing is going to stay in some form.

Notice that overall python module/packages in 2.1 take
precedence over java ones, so even with the setup:

x/ (empty dir) x.py

import x

would import the Python module x. The 2.1 behavior should be 
 reinstantiated in 2.2. I'm sorry so far I didn't manage to
look to the import refactorings that happened in 2.2, it
seems some things got broken.