diff --git a/sandbox/requirements.txt b/sandbox/requirements.txt
index d956f6c9..36241e14 100644
--- a/sandbox/requirements.txt
+++ b/sandbox/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+### python 2 requirements, see requirements3.txt for python 3
+
 astroid==1.6.6
 asttokens==2.0.5
 backports.functools-lru-cache==1.6.4
diff --git a/sandbox/requirements3.txt b/sandbox/requirements3.txt
index 2088b691..1fd05b92 100644
--- a/sandbox/requirements3.txt
+++ b/sandbox/requirements3.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
+### python 3 requirements, see requirements.txt for python 2
+
 # friendly-traceback and its dependencies, for python 3 only
 friendly-traceback==0.5.46
 stack-data==0.3.0
 executing==0.8.3
 pure-eval==0.2.2
 
+# openpyxl and its dependencies, for imports, which are python 3 only
+openpyxl==3.0.10
+jdcal==1.4.1
+et-xmlfile==1.0.1
+
 # Different astroid version for python 3
 astroid==2.5.7
 
@@ -12,21 +19,12 @@ asttokens==2.0.5
 backports.functools-lru-cache==1.6.4
 chardet==4.0.0
 enum34==1.1.10
-et-xmlfile==1.0.1
-html5lib==1.1
 iso8601==0.1.12
-jdcal==1.4.1
-json_table_schema==0.2.1
 lazy_object_proxy==1.6.0
-lxml==4.6.3                # used in csv plugin only?
 python_dateutil==2.8.2
-openpyxl==3.0.10
-python_magic==0.4.12
 roman==2.0.0
 singledispatch==3.6.2
 six==1.16.0
 sortedcontainers==2.4.0
-webencodings==0.5
 wrapt==1.12.1
-xlrd==1.2.0
 unittest-xml-reporting==2.0.0