Importing the module after building fails

After following the installation/compilation steps descriped in the readme, importing the module fails with the message:
ImportError: cannot import name '_pymemsurfer' from partially initialized module 'memsurfer' (most likely due to a circular import)
This happens when trying to run the ex_simple.py or otherwise importing the module.
Tested on Arch with python 3.7 and 3.8

Traceback:
File "examples/ex_simple.py", line 20, in
import memsurfer
File "/home/user/python37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/memsurfer-1.0.0-py3.7-linux-x86_64.egg/memsurfer/__init__.py", line 15, in
from .membrabe import Membrane
File "/home/user/python37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/memsurfer-1.0.0-py3.7-linux-x86_64.egg/memsurfer/membrane.py", line 21, in
from . import pymemsurfer
File "/home/user/python37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/memsurfer-1.0.0-py3.7-linux-x86_64.egg/memsurfer/pymemsurfer.py", line 13, in
from . import _pymemsurfer
ImportError: cannot import name '_pymemsurfer' from partially initialized module 'memsurfer' (most likely due to a circular import) (/home/user/python37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/memsurfer-1.0.0-py3.7-linux-x86_64.egg/memsurfer/__init__.py)

Start by reproducing the installation and compilation steps, then run examples/ex_simple.py to confirm the import failure. Read memsurfer/init.py, membrane.py, and pymemsurfer.py alongside the traceback to trace loading of _pymemsurfer; done means importing memsurfer and running the example succeed after a clean build.