It looks like this bug has bitten a few people. Sorry for that. In a
perfect world, whoever implemented absolute imports should have
fixed the ihooks module as well. Oh well.

I think I've managed to fix it. I've posted a patch on the issue
tracker: . If some people could
test and provide feedback it would probably help ensure this gets
fixed in Python 2.7.

For those who want to use Python 2.6, a quick solution would be to
drop the updated ihooks module in the quixote/ptl directory.  You
can download it from: .