Installing salt-pepper 0.5.5-1 on ubuntu 20.04 failing: cli.py:474: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?

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Attempting to install salt-pepper 0.5.5-1 on ubunutu 20.04 using apt is failing . please help.

❯ python -V
Python 3.8.10
❯ sudo apt update
Hit:1 https://repo.saltproject.io/py3/ubuntu/20.04/amd64/latest focal InRelease
Hit:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:3 https://repos.influxdata.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:4 https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com focal InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
❯ sudo apt install salt-pepper
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  salt-pepper
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 59.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 salt-pepper all 0.5.5-1 [12.9 kB]
Fetched 12.9 kB in 0s (75.0 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package salt-pepper.
(Reading database ... 214346 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../salt-pepper_0.5.5-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking salt-pepper (0.5.5-1) ...
Setting up salt-pepper (0.5.5-1) ...
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pepper/cli.py:474: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  if e.args[0] is not 2:
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

❯ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.4 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal