diff --git a/python/pytables/README b/python/pytables/README
index 22120c6a4a..4790b2fb90 100644
--- a/python/pytables/README
+++ b/python/pytables/README
@@ -15,5 +15,3 @@ PyTables has been designed to fulfill the next requirements:
     way, i.e. each single byte of data on disk has to be
     represented by one byte plus a small fraction when loaded
     in memory.
-
-This requires numpy, numexpr, hdf5 and Cython.