"RuntimeError: invalid slot offset" on trying to run python package

I use the pyhyphen package for a script I run all the time. Recently, I updated to MacOS Big Sur. Spyder was laggy, but I fixed that by running a virtual environment and pip installing what I needed. No issues.

Now, when I try to run from hyphen import Hyphenator (here is the package page), I get the following error:

runcell(0, '/Users/myname/Documents/project/project.py')
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Users/myname/Documents/project/project.py", line 17, in <module>
    from hyphen import Hyphenator

  File "/Users/myname/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/hyphen/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .hyphenator import Hyphenator

  File "/Users/myname/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/hyphen/hyphenator.py", line 27, in <module>
    from . import hnj

RuntimeError: invalid slot offset

The from hyphen import Hyphenator is the only line in the script. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the package six hundred times - and I cannot find any kind of solution for invalid slot offset. All other packages import fine, no issues.

Spyder (in Anaconda) is running python version 3.8.5. I have non-anaconda 3.9 installed, but I can't imagine that has any effect since I'm running spyder in a virtual environment.

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