diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 031ef1ba815..6dac94897ff 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name="spack"
 description="The spack package manager"
-requires-python=">=3.6"
+requires-python=">=3.6.2"
 dependencies=[
   "clingo",
   "setuptools",