Evdev package v1.7.1 does not install using pip install

[poornimash]

I ran this command to install the latest version but only 1.6.1 installs successfully while the latest version is 1.7.1

$ sudo pip3 install evdev
Collecting evdev
  Using cached evdev-1.7.1.tar.gz (30 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
  WARNING: Generating metadata for package evdev produced metadata for project name unknown. Fix your #egg=evdev fragments.
Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/12/bb/f622a8a5e64d46ca83020a761877c0ead19140903c9aaf1431f3c531fdf6/evdev-1.7.1.tar.gz#sha256=0c72c370bda29d857e188d931019c32651a9c1ea977c08c8d939b1ced1637fde (from https://pypi.org/simple/evdev/) (requires-python:>=3.6): Requested unknown from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/12/bb/f622a8a5e64d46ca83020a761877c0ead19140903c9aaf1431f3c531fdf6/evdev-1.7.1.tar.gz#sha256=0c72c370bda29d857e188d931019c32651a9c1ea977c08c8d939b1ced1637fde has inconsistent name: filename has 'evdev', but metadata has 'unknown'
  Using cached evdev-1.7.0.tar.gz (30 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
  WARNING: Generating metadata for package evdev produced metadata for project name unknown. Fix your #egg=evdev fragments.
Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f3/0c/c87b141250a650ee53d4e9957e905b17c144cda6dc4187cbe89a641a1b34/evdev-1.7.0.tar.gz#sha256=95bd2a1e0c6ce2cd7a2ecc6e6cd9736ff794b3ad5cb54d81d8cbc2e414d0b870 (from https://pypi.org/simple/evdev/) (requires-python:>=3.6): Requested unknown from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f3/0c/c87b141250a650ee53d4e9957e905b17c144cda6dc4187cbe89a641a1b34/evdev-1.7.0.tar.gz#sha256=95bd2a1e0c6ce2cd7a2ecc6e6cd9736ff794b3ad5cb54d81d8cbc2e414d0b870 has inconsistent name: filename has 'evdev', but metadata has 'unknown'
  Using cached evdev-1.6.1-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl
Installing collected packages: evdev
Successfully installed evdev-1.6.1
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

[ssieb]

Read the reason it's discarding the install. Your python is too old (ancient!). What OS are you running this on?