fastparquet error when saving pandas df to parquet: AttributeError: module 'fastparquet.parquet_thrift' has no attribute 'SchemaElement

import pandas as pd
from flatten_json import flatten

actual_column_list = ["_id", "external_id", "email", "created_at","updated_at", "dob.timestamp", "dob_1.timestamp","column_10"]

data = [{'_id': '60efe3333333445', 'external_id': 'ID2', 'dob': {'timestamp': 412214400}, 'email': 'woofwoof@gmail.com', 'created_at': 1626334203, 'updated_at': 1629338900},
        { 'external_id': 'ID3', '_id': '60efe3333333487', 'email': 'meowmeow@gmail.com', 'created_at': 1626334203, 'updated_at': 1629338900, 'dob_1': {'timestamp': 'oops'}}]

df = pd.DataFrame(data=[flatten(row, ".") for row in data], dtype='str', columns=actual_column_list)

with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_columns', None):
    print(df)

df.to_parquet(f"test.parquet", engine='fastparquet', compression="snappy", index=False)

ERROR Displayed:

root = parquet_thrift.SchemaElement(name=b'schema',
AttributeError: module 'fastparquet.parquet_thrift' has no attribute 'SchemaElement'

Python Version : 3.6.9 pyarrow=5.0.0 fastparquet=0.8.0 numpy=1.19.5 pandas=1.1.5. Tried the exact code snippet with Python Version : 3.7.13 pyarrow=7.0.0 fastparquet=0.8.0 numpy=1.21.5 pandas=1.3.5 and it worked but need I need it to work with Python Version : 3.6.9 Tried to explicitly use these versions in python 3.6.9 but it failed to install the dependencies.

What I want is to make the above code snippet compatible with python 3.6.9