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 # WikiExtractor
 [WikiExtractor.py](http://medialab.di.unipi.it/wiki/Wikipedia_Extractor) is a Python script that extracts and cleans text from a [Wikipedia database dump](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/).
 
-The tool is written in Python and requires Python 3 but no additional library.
+The tool is written in Python and requires Python 3.5 but no additional library.
 **Warning**: problems have been reported on Windows due to poor support for `StringIO` in the Python implementation on Windows.
 
 For further information, see the [Wiki](https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor/wiki).