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 This folder contains various useful scripts for developers, mostly related to
 releasing new versions of Lucene and testing those.
 
-Python scripts require Python 3. To install necessary python modules, please run:
+Python scripts require Python 3.6 or avobe. To install necessary python modules, please run:
 
     pip3 install -r requirements.txt