diff --git a/pattern/__init__.py b/pattern/__init__.py
index 2cef34ee..69c66216 100644
--- a/pattern/__init__.py
+++ b/pattern/__init__.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 __author__    = "Tom De Smedt"
 __credits__   = "Tom De Smedt, Walter Daelemans"
-__version__   = "3.6"
+__version__   = "3.7"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2010 University of Antwerp (BE)"
 __license__   = "BSD"
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5b1a544b..44f58fa1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
         "Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic",
         "Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML"
     ],
-    install_requires = [
+    install_requires = list([
         "future",
         "backports.csv",
         "mysqlclient",
@@ -148,6 +148,6 @@
         "python-docx",
         "cherrypy",
         "requests"
-    ],
+    ]),
     zip_safe = False
 )