diff --git a/wrap/cmake/GtwrapUtils.cmake b/wrap/cmake/GtwrapUtils.cmake
index b5f7912507..acf075c5b3 100644
--- a/wrap/cmake/GtwrapUtils.cmake
+++ b/wrap/cmake/GtwrapUtils.cmake
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ macro(get_python_version)
     if(NOT ${PYTHONINTERP_FOUND})
       message(
         FATAL_ERROR
-          "Cannot find Python interpreter. Please install Python >= 3.6.")
+          "Cannot find Python interpreter. Please install Python>=3.5.")
     endif()
 
     find_package(PythonLibs ${PYTHON_VERSION_STRING})
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ macro(get_python_version)
     if(NOT ${Python_FOUND})
       message(
         FATAL_ERROR
-          "Cannot find Python interpreter. Please install Python>=3.6.")
+          "Cannot find Python interpreter. Please install Python>=3.5.")
     endif()
 
   endif()
diff --git a/wrap/setup.py b/wrap/setup.py
index 10fc53d34a..8ef61f3125 100644
--- a/wrap/setup.py
+++ b/wrap/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     keywords="wrap, bindings, cpp, python",
     long_description=open("README.md").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    python_requires=">=3.6",
+    python_requires=">=3.5",
     # https://pypi.org/classifiers
     classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',