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 In this project, you will modify a very simple database system that we have written to illustrate some of the transactions functionality.
 The database system is written in Python and attempts to simulate how a database system would work, including what blocks it would read from disk, etc.
 
-**NOTE**: This codebase is different from the Project 4 codebase, with simpler relation schema and querying interface, but a more complex Buffer Pool Manager, and file management. Also, **this project requires python 2.7**.
-See some details below.
+**NOTE**: This codebase is different from the Project 4 codebase, with simpler relation schema and querying interface, but a more complex Buffer Pool Manager, and file management. Also, **this project requires python 3.X**.
 
 **Another Important Note:** We have taken a few shortcuts in this code to simplify it, which unfortunately means that there may be important synchronization failures we missed. Let me know if you see any unexpected behavior.
 
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 #### `testing.py`
 
-This contains some code for testing. You should be able to run: `python testing.py` to get started. Note that the first time you run it, it will create the
+This contains some code for testing. You should be able to run: `python3 testing.py` to get started. Note that the first time you run it, it will create the
 two files `relation1` and `logfile`, but after you kill it, the logfile will be inconsistent (we never write out CHECKPOINT
 records in normal course). So the second time you run it, it will error out since the restartRecovery code is not implemented. So if you want to work on the other
 two tasks, you should remove those two files every time.