From 6b5d7ca639ee2379900e51245ecb9600958b619c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Hemsted <leo.hemsted@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:05:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] switch to python 3.9

---
 README.md   | 2 +-
 runtime.txt | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e463ac5ee..8fc7c993a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Contains:
 
 ### Python version
 
-At the moment we run Python 3.6 in production. You will run into problems if you try to use Python 3.5 or older, or Python 3.7 or newer.
+We run python 3.9 both locally and in production.
 
 ### AWS credentials
 
diff --git a/runtime.txt b/runtime.txt
index 62ce9c02a..305091cae 100644
--- a/runtime.txt
+++ b/runtime.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-python-3.6.x
+python-3.9.x