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-Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} works with Python 3.8+. It can use the standard CPython interpreter,
+Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} works with Python 3.9+. It can use the standard CPython interpreter,
 so C libraries like NumPy can be used. It also works with PyPy 7.3.6+.
 
 Spark applications in Python can either be run with the `bin/spark-submit` script which includes Spark at runtime, or by including it in your setup.py as: