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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ post to the `user group <http://groups.google.com/group/mongoengine-users>`
 Supported Interpreters
 ----------------------
 
-MongoEngine supports CPython 2.6 and newer. Language
+MongoEngine supports CPython 2.7 and newer. Language
 features not supported by all interpreters can not be used.
 Please also ensure that your code is properly converted by
 `2to3 <http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html>`_ for Python 3 support.