PyOrient client reports protocol version error when trying to connect to server - orientdb

Question

I'm getting what appears to be a version mismatch error from client.connect() when using what I believe to be the most recent versions of pyorient and the orientdb server
Protocol version 37 is not supported yet by this client.
Is there a more up-to-date version of pyclient available?
here's the test script
#!/usr/bin/env python
import pyorient
client = pyorient.OrientDB( "localhost", 2424 )
session_id = client.connect( "root", "password" )
Here's the full traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./test1.py", line 7, in <module>
session_id = client.connect( "root", "D1sOri3nted" )
File "~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyorient-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pyorient/orient.py", line 325, in connect
return self.get_message("ConnectMessage") \
File "~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyorient-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pyorient/orient.py", line 540, in get_message
message_instance = _Message(self._connection)\
File "~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyorient-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pyorient/messages/connection.py", line 17, in __init__
super( ConnectMessage, self ).__init__(_orient_socket)
File "~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyorient-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pyorient/messages/base.py", line 24, in __init__
sock.get_connection()
File "~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyorient-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pyorient/orient.py", line 78, in get_connection
self.connect()
File "~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyorient-1.5.5-py2.7.egg/pyorient/orient.py", line 103, in connect
" is not supported yet by this client.", [])
pyorient.exceptions.PyOrientWrongProtocolVersionException: Protocol version 37 is not supported yet by this client.
I'm using the pyorient version from https://github.com/orientechnologies/pyorient
The server comes from the distributed docker image.
I'm uncertain of how to get the server version, but from within the docker container the console reports v3.0.1
Thanks in advance for any help or advice on this!