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Do you by any chance have a PYTHONHOME environment variable defined ?

PYTHONHOME
Change the location of the standard Python libraries. By default, the libraries are searched in prefix/lib/pythonversion and exec_prefix/lib/pythonversion, where prefix and exec_prefix are installation-dependent directories, both defaulting to /usr/local.

When PYTHONHOME is set to a single directory, its value replaces both prefix and exec_prefix. To specify different values for these, set PYTHONHOME to prefix:exec_prefix.

What is the output of

Output:
$ env | grep PYTHON

on your system?

No.

Output:
lt1a/forums/1 /home/forums 4> env | grep PYTHON
PYTHONSTARTUP=.init.py
PYTHONPATH=/home/forums:/home/forums/py:/home/forums/py/lib:/home/forums/lib:/usr/host/lib/py:/usr/host/lib:/usr/local/lib/py:/usr/local/lib
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=True
lt1a/forums/1 /home/forums 5> box /usr/host/bin/{site,sys}.*
+----</usr/host/bin/site.getsitepackages>----+
| #!/usr/bin/env python3                     |
| import site                                |
| print(repr(site.getsitepackages()))        |
+--------------------------------------------+
+----</usr/host/bin/sys.base_exec_prefix>----+
| #!/usr/bin/env python3                     |
| import sys                                 |
| print(repr(sys.base_exec_prefix))          |
+--------------------------------------------+
+----</usr/host/bin/sys.exec_prefix>----+
| #!/usr/bin/env python3                |
| import sys                            |
| print(repr(sys.exec_prefix))          |
+---------------------------------------+
lt1a/forums/1 /home/forums 6> /usr/host/bin/site.getsitepackages;/usr/host/bin/sys.base_exec_prefix;/usr/host/bin/sys.exec_prefix
['/usr/host/bin/../../../local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages', '/usr/host/bin/../../../lib/python3/dist-packages', '/usr/host/bin/../../../lib/python3.8/dist-packages']
'/usr/host/bin/../../..'
'/usr/host/bin/../../..'
lt1a/forums/1 /home/forums 7>