pyyaml instead of yaml, union instead of pipe

[schnamo]

replacing pipe with Union for backward compatibility before Python 3.10, and use PyPI project name 'pyyaml' to install the yaml module used to handle YAML files

[sfluegel05]

Thanks for noticing and fixing the yaml dependency and the compatibility issues.

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