I get the error "ImportError: Module use of python312.dll conflicts with this version of Python." when I try to flash my device using any Python version below 3.12.x. I get no error when I try to build the project.
However, when I set the global Python version to 3.12.0 using pyenv, it first and foremost correctly doesn't recognize the nrfutil package until I install it into the new version, which is a sign that it has correctly changed the version, but I also get a new error related to not having the package "constants." When I pip install that I get a third error:
versions\3.12.0\Lib\site-packages\nordicsemi\lister\windows\lister_win32.py", line 43, in <module> from constants import DIGCF_PRESENT, DEVPKEY, DIGCF_DEVICEINTERFACE ImportError: cannot import name 'DIGCF_PRESENT' from 'constants' (C:\Users\DripTooHard\.pyenv\pyenv-win\versions\3.12.0\Lib\site-packages\constants.py)
Looking online, it seems like the fix to this issue is to downgrade to 3.8 or 3.9. But this just goes back to me having the original error.
I tried looking at the support information, and it seems like the toolchain is reffering to a Python 3.12.4 version?
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I am wondering if the fix would be to somehow change the python version in the toolchain, but I would like to hear first if you have any other suggestions? I have gone through my path and replaced all occurances of Python with a refference to 3.8.6, but once again, it appears that pyenv is correctly setting the right python versions, so this is most likely not a path issue.