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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ A check plugin for [Nagios](https://www.nagios.org/)/[Icinga](https://icinga.com
 
 ## Requirements ##
 
-- [Python](https://www.python.org/) >= 3.7
+- [Python](https://www.python.org/) >= 3.8
 - [requests](https://pypi.org/project/requests)
 - [nagiosplugin](https://pypi.org/project/nagiosplugin/)