diff --git a/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.lock b/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.lock
index 501c65f..3eaa126 100644
--- a/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.lock
+++ b/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,18 +1,6 @@
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- "memoffset",
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  "portable-atomic",
  "pyo3-build-config",
  "pyo3-ffi",
  "pyo3-macros",
- "unindent",
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- "once_cell",
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+version = "0.29.2"
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@@ -105,9 +70,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
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-version = "0.23.5"
+version = "0.29.2"
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-checksum = "fbc2201328f63c4710f68abdf653c89d8dbc2858b88c5d88b0ff38a75288a9da"
+checksum = "73225868fc1cd84eef2c3c230ddb91273bf1de46aeb8a4248da76d32a0924a1c"
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  "proc-macro2",
  "pyo3-macros-backend",
@@ -117,13 +82,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
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  "heck",
  "proc-macro2",
- "pyo3-build-config",
  "quote",
  "syn",
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@@ -144,12 +108,6 @@ dependencies = [
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@@ -163,18 +121,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
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diff --git a/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.toml b/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.toml
index 72d96bb..e9d1212 100644
--- a/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 
 
 [dependencies]
-pyo3 = { version = "0.23", features = ["extension-module"] }
+pyo3 = { version = "0.29", features = ["extension-module"] }
diff --git a/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/src/lib.rs b/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/src/lib.rs
index 0273ca0..81caba2 100644
--- a/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust_utils/fuzzy_string_matcher/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use pyo3::prelude::*;
 /// Attributes:
 ///     word (str): The word being compared
 ///     distance (int): The Damerau-Levenshtein distance from the target word
-#[pyclass]
+#[pyclass(from_py_object)]
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct WordDistance {
     #[pyo3(get)]
@@ -26,13 +26,28 @@ impl Iter {
     fn __iter__(slf: PyRef<'_, Self>) -> PyRef<'_, Self> {
         slf
     }
-    fn __next__(mut slf: PyRefMut<'_, Self>) -> Option<PyObject> {
+    fn __next__(mut slf: PyRefMut<'_, Self>) -> Option<Py<PyAny>> {
         if slf.index == 0 {
             slf.index += 1;
-            Some(slf.word_distance.word.clone().into_py(slf.py()))
+            Some(
+                slf.word_distance
+                    .word
+                    .clone()
+                    .into_pyobject(slf.py())
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .into_any()
+                    .unbind(),
+            )
         } else if slf.index == 1 {
             slf.index += 1;
-            Some(slf.word_distance.distance.into_py(slf.py()))
+            Some(
+                slf.word_distance
+                    .distance
+                    .into_pyobject(slf.py())
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .into_any()
+                    .unbind(),
+            )
         } else {
             None
         }