wssh from pip is seriously degraded, old wssh is partially broken

[Tectract]

I'm a wssh user, been using it happily for a long time. I'm using version 0.1.0 from this repo. It seems that if you install wssh via pip, you get a broken, degraded version. Here is the output from this wssh:

usage: wssh [-h] [-l] [-m {text,binary,auto}] [-n] [-q secs] [-v] URL
positional arguments:
     URL                   URL of a WebSocket endpoint with or without ws:// or wss://

optional arguments:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -l                    start in listen mode, creating a server
    -m {text,binary,auto}   specify the message transmit mode (default: auto)
    -n                    separate each received message with a newline
    -q secs               quit after EOF on stdin and delay of secs (0 allowed)
    -v                    verbose (use up to 3 times to be more verbose)

and here is the output from wssh installed via pip:

usage: wssh [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [--password [PASSWORD]]
        [--key [KEY]] [--key-passphrase [KEY_PASSPHRASE]]
        destination

Why is the official pip version missing all those options, I need the -n option!

My notes also indicate I need to use ws4py v0.2.4 (version-locked) for a working install of wssh, installed from source, and possibly also libevent library may need to be installed from source or lib-linked at compile-time for wssh.

On my most recent install this week, I'm getting this error popping up:
Exception: threading module loaded before patching!

It's a PITA to debug this, involving changing wssh/init.py so the first lines in my init.py now read:

import gevent.monkey; gevent.monkey.patch_thread()
import sys
import threading

but this now causes the error/warning (which doesn't seem to affect functionality on my system, luckily):

Exception KeyError: KeyError(140049873684592,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored

So, it's a boondoggle to get wssh working on a modern system anymore, is the point.

Can we get the 'good' / working version of wssh with the full option set into python pip somehow?

[progrium]

It's been sooooo long I have no idea how anything is working. If somebody were to figure out what needs to be done and do it, or share what needs to be done so somebody else can we can probably resolve this.

[Tectract]

I don't really know how pip packages work or how the "wrong" version got up there... This is like the most usefull little websocket tool though, just seems to be getting tougher and tougher to keep getting it working on new machines over the years.

[Tectract]

relevant issue / ticket links for posterity:

gevent/gevent#63

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8774958/keyerror-in-module-threading-after-a-successful-py-test-run