Jammy python installation corrupted for just one user: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections'

I keep my Jammy Ubuntu always up to date, with all updates installed almost daily. So everything I have installed is at its latest version.

I have installed two important applications: a Windows VM on libvirt + qemu, and docker (including docker compose).

One day, I noticed that the Virtual Machine Manager won’t start anymore from gnome (I pinned it to my application bar). It just closes automatically, and the error it throws is:
ImportError: cannot import name ‘Mapping’ from ‘collections’ (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/init.py)

From command-line, the application, however, starts.

But then, I had to run a docker compose command (which had successfully completed the day before), which resulted in this:

docker-compose up -d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.29.2', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')())
  File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 171, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 13, in <module>
    import docker.errors
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/docker/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .api import APIClient
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/docker/api/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .client import APIClient
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 6, in <module>
    import requests
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
    import urllib3
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .connectionpool import (
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 29, in <module>
    from .connection import (
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 39, in <module>
    from .util.ssl_ import (
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .connection import is_connection_dropped
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .wait import wait_for_read
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/wait.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .selectors import (
  File "/home/myUserName/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/selectors.py", line 14, in <module>
    from collections import namedtuple, Mapping
ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py)

I have tried to re-install python, worked with chatGPT to try to resolve the issue, but nothing worked.

One thing I tried, was to run the same command as root. Surprise, as root, the same command works without a problem!

So there must be something related to my user settings that does not allow python to run.

However, there are no python folders in my ~
Nothing in my .config related to python, and just a .local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ out of which I deleted all .pyc files, and a .local/bin/ that has several python files (I didn’t delete those).

So, I tried all I could think of, re-installed python, pip, and now, I’m turning to you if you have any ideas, please help

My python version is 3.10.12