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Well, that could have been fixed by booting from an usb stick, chrooting into you real system and either downloading and (re)installing the python package this way, or, if your package manager depends on python, download the package in the Live Linux and extracting the python package into your system, and then reinstalling it, so the package management overwrites your "manual installation".
Could be tedious, but less so that having to reinstall everything IMO.
Fair, unfortunately it was a work machine that i needed operational again asap.
Luckily i image my machine monthly, so it was fairly straightforward to roll back.