From 193cf488a3aa31b0e99219f1a8c4eb7567903069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Aarsen <37621491+tomaarsen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:31:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Made nltk/__init__.py equivalent to setup.py (#2787)

---
 nltk/__init__.py | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nltk/__init__.py b/nltk/__init__.py
index 000cecaf26..b42c548992 100644
--- a/nltk/__init__.py
+++ b/nltk/__init__.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 # Description of the toolkit, keywords, and the project's primary URL.
 __longdescr__ = """\
 The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for
-natural language processing.  NLTK requires Python 2.6 or higher."""
+natural language processing.  NLTK requires Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, or 3.9."""
 __keywords__ = [
     "NLP",
     "CL",
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 __url__ = "http://nltk.org/"
 
 # Maintainer, contributors, etc.
-__maintainer__ = "Steven Bird, Edward Loper, Ewan Klein"
+__maintainer__ = "Steven Bird"
 __maintainer_email__ = "stevenbird1@gmail.com"
 __author__ = __maintainer__
 __author_email__ = __maintainer_email__
@@ -84,8 +84,10 @@
     "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
     "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Human Machine Interfaces",