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-Sanic is a **Python 3.6+** web server and web framework that's written to go fast. It allows the usage of the ``async/await`` syntax added in Python 3.5, which makes your code non-blocking and speedy.
+Sanic is a **Python 3.7+** web server and web framework that's written to go fast. It allows the usage of the ``async/await`` syntax added in Python 3.5, which makes your code non-blocking and speedy.
 
 Sanic is also ASGI compliant, so you can deploy it with an `alternative ASGI webserver <https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sanic/deploying.html#running-via-asgi>`_.