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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ is an example of building a swagger-enabled Flask server.
 This example uses the [Connexion](https://github.com/zalando/connexion) library on top of Flask.
 
 ## Requirements
-Python 2.7+
+Python 3.7+
 
 ## Usage
 To run the server, please execute the following from the root directory: