ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_dbus_bindings' debian 11 bullseye python 3.9.2

I’m upgrading my arm based system from debian 10 to debian 11, but python is giving me a headache.

I’m running a bluetooth server on it, with the bluedot api, but this requires the dbus-python api. This was a hassle to install on its own but now the module not found error has shifted from dbus to _dbus_bindings. And now I’m just lost.

ive installed all the dependencies for dbus, but it still doesn’t work.

full error:

  File "/etc/test.py", line 3, in <module>
    import dbus
  File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/dbus_python-1.2.18-py3.9-linux-aarch64.egg/dbus/__init__.py", line 73, in <module>
  File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/dbus_python-1.2.18-py3.9-linux-aarch64.egg/dbus/types.py", line 8, in <module>
     # iterator.  Don't check the type!  Use hasattr to check for both
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_dbus_bindings'

I don’t know if the problem is the new debian, or the switch from python 3.7.3 to 3.9.2 that came with it.