From 279b97ecaa82d7659249580dbefb34bc069c8d59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergii Tkachenko <sergiitk@google.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 11:56:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] xDS Interop: require Python 3.7 (#31323)

---
 tools/internal_ci/linux/grpc_xds_k8s_install_test_driver.sh | 2 +-
 tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/README.md               | 4 ++--
 tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/requirements.txt        | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/internal_ci/linux/grpc_xds_k8s_install_test_driver.sh b/tools/internal_ci/linux/grpc_xds_k8s_install_test_driver.sh
index 13ebec04f47..b3f61e2e1f1 100644
--- a/tools/internal_ci/linux/grpc_xds_k8s_install_test_driver.sh
+++ b/tools/internal_ci/linux/grpc_xds_k8s_install_test_driver.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 set -eo pipefail
 
 # Constants
-readonly PYTHON_VERSION="${PYTHON_VERSION:-3.6}"
+readonly PYTHON_VERSION="${PYTHON_VERSION:-3.7}"
 # Test driver
 readonly TEST_DRIVER_REPO_NAME="grpc"
 readonly TEST_DRIVER_REPO_URL="https://github.com/${TEST_DRIVER_REPO_OWNER:-grpc}/grpc.git"
diff --git a/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/README.md b/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/README.md
index d0abbd2cb50..3f5680184ba 100644
--- a/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/README.md
+++ b/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/README.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ changes to this codebase at the moment.
 ## Installation
 
 #### Requirements
-1. Python v3.6+
+1. Python v3.7+
 2. [Google Cloud SDK](https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install)
 3. `kubectl`
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ export KUBE_CONTEXT="$(kubectl config current-context)"
 
 ```shell
 # Create python virtual environment
-python3.6 -m venv venv
+python3.7 -m venv venv
 
 # Activate virtual environment
 . ./venv/bin/activate
diff --git a/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/requirements.txt b/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/requirements.txt
index fddbc5a894c..2688bd5240e 100644
--- a/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/run_tests/xds_k8s_test_driver/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Mako~=1.1
 PyYAML~=5.3
 absl-py~=0.11
-dataclasses~=0.8; python_version < '3.7'
 google-api-python-client~=1.12
 google-cloud-secret-manager~=2.1
 grpcio~=1.34