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 Requirements
 ------------
-You need a VIM version that was compiled with Python 2.7 or later
-(``+python`` or ``+python3``).  You can check this from within VIM using
-``:python3 import sys; print(sys.version)`` (use ``:python`` for Python 2).
+You need a VIM version that was compiled with Python 3 or later
+(``+python3``).  You can check this from within VIM using
+``:python3 import sys; print(sys.version)``.
 
 Manual installation
 -------------------