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Old question, but here is an answer.

You should use built-in libraries such as numpy in Python and not normalize yourself.

Here is how to do it in Python

quat = [q.x, q.y, q.z, q.w]

quat_norm = quat / np.linalg.norm(quat)

This should solve the issue

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