AssertionError: SRE module mismatch anki launcher interfering with global python

[Fus3n]

The anki launcher is interfering with my global python installation on Windows 11:

Error: Failed to run (1): D:\Anki\uv.exe run --no-project --no-config --managed-python --with pip-system-certs,requests[socks] --python 3.13.5 D:\Anki\versions.py: pip_system_certs: ERROR: could not register module: DLL load failed while importing _ssl: The specified module could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Anki\versions.py", line 4, in <module>
    import json
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\json\__init__.py", line 106, in <module>
    from .decoder import JSONDecoder, JSONDecodeError
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 3, in <module>
    import re
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\re\__init__.py", line 125, in <module>
    from . import _compiler, _parser
  File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\re\_compiler.py", line 18, in <module>
    assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, "SRE module mismatch"
AssertionError: SRE module mismatch

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I was getting this every time trying to install latest version, I had to temporarily remove python path from my environment variables to be able to install it and after that launching "anki.exe" also showed this error on terminal:

Error: Failed to run (1): C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\AnkiProgramFiles\.venv\Scripts/pythonw.exe -c import aqt, sys; sys.argv[0] = 'Anki'; aqt.run()
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So i had to create a bat file to exclude my installation paths just to be able to launch it

[user1823]

The launcher is being reconsidered for subsequent releases.

• Revisiting the launcher #4556

But, it would be helpful to know exactly which environment variables you removed and what bat file you used to successfully launch Anki in your setup.

[Fus3n]

The launcher is being reconsidered for subsequent releases.

• Revisiting the launcher #4556

But, it would be helpful to know exactly which environment variables you removed and what bat file you used to successfully launch Anki in your setup.

@echo off
set PYTHONPATH=
set PYTHONHOME=
set PATH=%PATH:C:\Program Files\Python312;=%
set PATH=%PATH:C:\Program Files\Python312\Scripts;=%

start "" "D:\Anki\anki.exe"

This is basically my setup with the bat file, at first i only tried manually removing the PYTHONHOME and removed the root C:\Program Files\Python312 path from system PATH but it did not work the app still didn't start but i only tried it once then thought of removing basically every python related path before start up so it uses its own packaged python version i guess, this.. feels like a really odd problem when it could be avoided by directly referencing the packaged python? (granted i don't know how uv interacts with it or how you would do it with uv)

[abdnh]

Related: #4523

[HanMoeHtet]

#4564 (comment)

I can confirm this solves the issue for now. Wired, it still worked on my machine until yesterday.