diff --git a/students/rmart300/lesson08_nonrelational_db/requirements.txt b/students/rmart300/lesson08_nonrelational_db/requirements.txt
index d5e1ea41..8a2e98dd 100644
--- a/students/rmart300/lesson08_nonrelational_db/requirements.txt
+++ b/students/rmart300/lesson08_nonrelational_db/requirements.txt
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ pexpect==4.3.1
 pickleshare==0.7.4
 prompt-toolkit==1.0.15
 ptyprocess==0.5.2
-py==1.4.34
+py==1.10.0
 pycodestyle==2.3.1
 pyfastaq==3.15.0
 pyflakes==1.6.0