diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cc2835902..8987b0cbf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,9 +2,19 @@
 """
 ChatterBot setup file.
 """
+import sys
+import platform
 from setuptools import setup
 
 
+if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+    raise Exception(
+        'You are tying to install ChatterBot on Python version {}.\n'
+        'Please install ChatterBot in Python 3 instead.'.format(
+            platform.python_version()
+        )
+    )
+
 # Dynamically retrieve the version information from the chatterbot module
 CHATTERBOT = __import__('chatterbot')
 VERSION = CHATTERBOT.__version__