diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 31abdf82..74762239 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ more-itertools==4.2.0
 numpy==1.14.3
 Pillow==5.1.0
 pluggy==0.6.0
-py==1.5.3
+py==1.10.0
 Pygments==2.2.0
 pyjade==4.0.0
 PyJWT==1.5.2