Not sure if this is the problem in your case, but I've seen this error when debugging in Visual Studio Code on Windows 11. It hits the error when importing python libraries. I found copies of the libraries were installed in the visual studio extensions folders: "C:\Users\[username]\.vscode\extensions\". I just deleted all files under this folder. When I opened Visual Studio Code it prompted me to reinstall the deleted Python extensions, which I did, and the problem was resolved. A clean un-install and re-install of the Python extensions would probably work too.