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 # Install
 
 `pip install git+git://github.com/waspinator/pycococreator.git@0.2.0`
+
+If you need to install pycocotools for python 3, try the following:
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install python3-dev
+pip install cython
+pip install git+git://github.com/waspinator/coco.git@2.1.0
+```