Attempt to clarify Python version requirements (#7161)

In particular, we depend on `typing.TYPE_CHECKING`, which is only present in
3.5.2.

It turns out that Ubuntu Xenial, despite having a package called `python 3
(3.5.1-3)`, actually has python 3.5.2, so I think this is fine.
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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ that your email address is probably `user@example.com` rather than
System requirements:
- POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
- Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8.
- Python 3.5.2 or later, up to Python 3.8.
- At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
Synapse is written in Python but some of the libraries it uses are written in