libxml2 for python3 is failing with undefined symbol: _PyVerify_fd

System Details:
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

python3-libxml2:
  Installed: 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2
  Candidate: 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2 500
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1 500
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages

I'm using a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 and I cannot import libxml2 using Python3.

Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct 3 2017, 21:45:48)
[GCC 7.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import libxml2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libxml2mod.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _PyVerify_fd
>>> quit()
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

There are some other related issues on Fedora and Debian.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406920
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878684

The possible solution was upgrade to a stable version as 2.9.7