diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/.gitignore b/metadata-ingestion/.gitignore
index f571a2c437..171c167363 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/.gitignore
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .envrc
 .vscode/
 output
+pvenv36/
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/README.md b/metadata-ingestion/README.md
index 84a9648a6e..b6da6e84e6 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/README.md
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 - On MacOS: `brew install librdkafka`
 - On Debian/Ubuntu: `sudo apt install librdkafka-dev python3-dev python3-venv`
 
-## Set up python environment (requires python 3.7+)
+## Set up python environment (requires python 3.6+)
 - python3 -m venv venv
 - source venv/bin/activate
 - pip install -e .