diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index abb91d69b..ef2d4d749 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Common
 
-  First things first: Supybot *requires* at least Python 2.4.  There
+  First things first: Supybot *requires* at least Python 2.3.  There
 ain't no getting around it.  You can get it from http://www.python.org/.
 
   Recommended Software
diff --git a/scripts/supybot b/scripts/supybot
index e281dd736..0cc2b979b 100644
--- a/scripts/supybot
+++ b/scripts/supybot
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ import shutil
 import signal
 import cStringIO as StringIO
 
-if sys.version_info < (2, 4, 0):
-    sys.stderr.write('This program requires Python >= 2.4.0\n')
+if sys.version_info < (2, 3, 0):
+    sys.stderr.write('This program requires Python >= 2.3.0\n')
     sys.exit(-1)
 
 def _termHandler(signalNumber, stackFrame):
diff --git a/scripts/supybot-plugin-create b/scripts/supybot-plugin-create
index 92aa431ae..6fcab9256 100644
--- a/scripts/supybot-plugin-create
+++ b/scripts/supybot-plugin-create
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ def error(s):
     sys.stderr.write(os.linesep)
     sys.exit(-1)
 
-if sys.version_info < (2, 4, 0):
-    error('This script requires Python 2.4 or newer.')
+if sys.version_info < (2, 3, 0):
+    error('This script requires Python 2.3 or newer.')
 
 import supybot.conf as conf
 from supybot.questions import *
diff --git a/scripts/supybot-wizard b/scripts/supybot-wizard
index dc334cddd..521714617 100644
--- a/scripts/supybot-wizard
+++ b/scripts/supybot-wizard
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ def error(s):
         sys.stderr.write(os.linesep)
     sys.exit(-1)
 
-if sys.version_info < (2, 4, 0):
-    error('This program requires Python >= 2.4.0')
+if sys.version_info < (2, 3, 0):
+    error('This program requires Python >= 2.3.0')
 
 import supybot
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bf29faed4..dcc7915db 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
 
 import sys
 
-if sys.version_info < (2, 4, 0):
-    sys.stderr.write("Supybot requires Python 2.4 or newer.\n")
+if sys.version_info < (2, 3, 0):
+    sys.stderr.write("Supybot requires Python 2.3 or newer.\n")
     sys.exit(-1)
 
 import textwrap