diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
index 60d56e5322095945d7f82c3ca9db43e13fe40240..87623d714bbc5faae07a62038555ac1d993498f5 100644
--- a/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
-requests==2.9.2
+requests>=2.20.0
 numpy>=1.12
 protobuf>=3.1.0
 recordio>=0.1.0
-matplotlib==2.2.3 # TODO: let python3 paddlepaddle package use latest matplotlib
+matplotlib<=2.2.3 ; python_version<"3.5"
+scipy>=0.19.0, <=1.2.1 ; python_version<"3.5"
+nltk>=3.2.2, <=3.4 ; python_version<"3.5"
+matplotlib ; python_version>="3.5"
+scipy ; python_version>="3.5"
+nltk ; python_version>="3.5"
 rarfile
-scipy>=0.19.0,<=1.2.1
 Pillow
-nltk>=3.2.2
 graphviz
 six
 funcsigs