diff --git a/htmlreport/README.txt b/htmlreport/README.txt
index 8b71888d0..88a84a163 100644
--- a/htmlreport/README.txt
+++ b/htmlreport/README.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ cppcheck-htmlreport
 This is a little utility to generate a html report of a XML file produced by
 cppcheck.
 
-The utility is implemented in Python and require the pygments module to be
-able to generate syntax highlighted source code.
+The utility is implemented in Python (2.7+) and requires the pygments module
+to generate syntax highlighted source code.
 If you are using a Debian based Linux system, the pygments package can be 
 installed by following command:
 $ sudo apt-get install python-pygments