How can I fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysftp' for an Ansible library?

Question

On a Mac OS

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.10.8
  config file = /Users/cfouts/.ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/myUser/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/3.3.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.4 (default, Apr  5 2021, 01:50:46) [Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)]

This is a follow up to In Ansible, how to download from a secure FTP (SFTP) server?

I'm trying to modify the ftp.py library mentioned in the answer in above post to support SFTP by adding the pysftp library. So I added

import contextlib
from enum import Enum
import ftplib
import hashlib
import os
import tempfile
import time
import pysftp <--------- Added this

Now I'm getting

TASK [downloader : Download] **************************************************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysftp'
fatal: [10.227.x.x]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/Users/myUser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1679500320.631737-50774-110602676057179/AnsiballZ_ftp.py\", line 102, in <module>\n    _ansiballz_main()\n  File \"/Users/myUser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1679500320.631737-50774-110602676057179/AnsiballZ_ftp.py\", line 94, in _ansiballz_main\n    invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n  File \"/Users/myUser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1679500320.631737-50774-110602676057179/AnsiballZ_ftp.py\", line 40, in invoke_module\n    runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible.modules.ftp', init_globals=None, run_name='__main__', alter_sys=True)\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/runpy.py\", line 210, in run_module\n    return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, mod_spec)\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/runpy.py\", line 97, in _run_module_code\n    _run_code(code, mod_globals, init_globals,\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/runpy.py\", line 87, in _run_code\n    exec(code, run_globals)\n  File \"/var/folders/kb/mk006j312mz2nyxbxd66gmth9fk800/T/ansible_ftp_payload_3u9acyhb/ansible_ftp_payload.zip/ansible/modules/ftp.py\", line 27, in <module>\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysftp'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

It can't find the pysftp module. I even added this task before calling the ftp.py module

- name: Install pysftp
  pip:
    name:
    - pysftp
  delegate_to: localhost
- name: Download from SFTP server using ftp.py library
  ftp:
    protocol: sftp
    ...
  delegate_to: localhost

But I just get

TASK [downloader : Install pysftp] ********************************************************************************************************************
ok: [10.227.x.x]

which indicates that the module is installed?

What gives? How can I fix this? TIA

How can I fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysftp' for an Ansible library?

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