DBT Python Model sets runtime to 3.8 when running in 3.11 environment

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The problem I’m having

I am using a Python Model that is run via a dbt Core run command via command line inside a Airflow DAG. Airflow environment is set to default to Python 3.11 however when the model is compiled to a stored procedure in Snowflake its runtime is set to Python 3.8 so it fails as 3.8 is deprecated in Snowflake. I am using dbt-core 1.5.1 and dbt-snowflake 1.5.2

The context of why I’m trying to do this

To deploy a Python model to Snowflake

What I’ve already tried

Checked the worker environment to see the version of Python

Some example code or error messages

[2025-07-02, 15:32:03 UTC] {subprocess.py:93} INFO - e[0m15:32:03      File "/usr/lib/python_udf/420adbb1758814c9ace7e62d75605c09856a90d79cedb258e067f56489192c90/lib/python3.8/site-packages/snowflake/connector/errors.py", line 287, in hand_to_other_handler
[2025-07-02, 15:32:03 UTC] {subprocess.py:93} INFO - e[0m15:32:03        cursor.errorhandler(connection, cursor, error_class, error_value)
[2025-07-02, 15:32:03 UTC] {subprocess.py:93} INFO - e[0m15:32:03      File "/usr/lib/python_udf/420adbb1758814c9ace7e62d75605c09856a90d79cedb258e067f56489192c90/lib/python3.8/site-packages/snowflake/connector/errors.py", line 165, in default_errorhandler
[2025-07-02, 15:32:03 UTC] {subprocess.py:93} INFO - e[0m15:32:03        raise error_class(
[2025-07-02, 15:32:03 UTC] {subprocess.py:93} INFO - e[0m15:32:03    snowflake.snowpark.exceptions.SnowparkSQLException: (1304): 01bd6c04-030d-e072-0057-c90705bd66de: 391569 (22023): 01bd6c04-030d-e072-0057-c90705bd66de: SQL compilation error: Python runtime version 3.8 is decommissioned. Please update your code to Python runtime version 3.9 or later
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