diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/runners/dataflow/internal/apiclient_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/runners/dataflow/internal/apiclient_test.py
index d55739fc6822..022136aae9a2 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/runners/dataflow/internal/apiclient_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/runners/dataflow/internal/apiclient_test.py
@@ -998,12 +998,12 @@ def test_interpreter_version_check_passes_with_experiment(self):
 
   @mock.patch(
       'apache_beam.runners.dataflow.internal.apiclient.sys.version_info',
-      (3, 9, 6))
+      (3, 8, 2))
   @mock.patch(
       'apache_beam.runners.dataflow.internal.apiclient.'
       'beam_version.__version__',
       '2.2.0')
-  def test_interpreter_version_check_passes_py39(self):
+  def test_interpreter_version_check_passes_py38(self):
     pipeline_options = PipelineOptions([])
     apiclient._verify_interpreter_version_is_supported(pipeline_options)