How to control a stepper motor using Python?

I am currently trying to control a NEMA 17 stepper motor rated for 1.5A through a DRV8825 driver using a Raspberry Pi 4B for a school project. I was trying to use RPi.GPIO to control the motor but it does not work. I started to search and read that as of kernel 6.6 onwards, RPi.GPIO does not work anymore. I am new to the Raspberry Pi platform and have come across libraries such as libgpio and gpiozero, and despite reading the documentation, I am still lost.

How can I control the GPIO pins specifically to drive a stepper motor?

OS:

• Bookworm OS with kernel 6.12.34-rpt-rpi-v8

Hardware:

• NEMA 17 0.28N 1.5A
• 12V 2.5A Power supply
• DRV8825 stepper motor driver (Vref is set to around 0.74v)

Wiring diagram:

Code:

from time import sleep
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

DIR = 20
STEP = 21
CW = 1 # Clockwise Rotation
CCW = 0 # Counterclockwise Rotation
SPR = 200 # Steps per revolution which is 1.8 per step for NEMA 17 

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(DIR, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(STEP, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(DIR, CW)

step_count = SPR
delay = 0.005

for i in range(step_count):
    GPIO.output(STEP, GPIO.HIGH)
    sleep(delay)
    GPIO.output(STEP, GPIO.LOW)
    sleep(delay)

sleep(0.5)
GPIO.output(DIR, CCW)

for i in range(step_count):
    GPIO.output(STEP, GPIO.HIGH)
    sleep(delay)
    GPIO.output(STEP, GPIO.LOW)
    sleep(delay)

GPIO.cleanup()