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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Preferably, you can download sqlmap by cloning the [Git](https://github.com/sqlm
 
     git clone https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap.git sqlmap-dev
 
-sqlmap works out of the box with [Python](http://www.python.org/download/) version '''2.6.x''' and '''2.7.x''' on any platform.
+sqlmap works out of the box with [Python](http://www.python.org/download/) version **2.6.x** and **2.7.x** on any platform.
 
 Usage
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