hook: disable demandimport before importing hooks This solved an obscure bug for me. In upgrading Distribute on the server, a patch was added to has a try: import a except ImportError thing that's only supposed to work with Python 3.3. I'm using 2.7. My hook failed with an ImportError because of this. It seems kind of sensible to turn off demandimport before importing the hook, since the except ImportError pattern is used quite a bit in Python code (including in other Distribute code).