3.11.9 Python install not being recognized

Windows 11. Tried both 2023.12230 (most recent) and the immediate prior. This might not be a bug but I’m stumped. I tried installing python 3.11.9 (to run Dotsimulates Stream Diffusion as well as his comfy UI) and the python version stays at 3.11.1 I’ve tried both 3.11.9 and 3.10.9 - installed directly from python website.

Pointed the path to the site-packages. Uninstalled them. Reinstalled only 3.11.9. Tried it both on a different drive as well as the standard installation of python. Uninstalled/reinstalled Touchdesigner. Made sure environment tables were added to python. Are you able to try to install 3.11.9 with the latest version of TD? It usually works seamlessly. Anything I might be missing?

Hello @kwave.creations

This is not the way things work in TouchDesigner.

TouchDesigner ships with its own python distribution, therefore, no matter what version of Python you have installed on your system will not change the version that is being loaded and running in TouchDesigner.

Best,
Michel