From 7484b61b6dbff6797738d1ef769020ae322a1012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Darnell Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:23:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document ssl module requirements in index.rst --- docs/index.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index a5f166a3..ed24eb62 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -66,9 +66,10 @@ installed in this way, so you may wish to download a copy of the source tarball or clone the `git repository `_ as well. -**Prerequisites**: Tornado runs on Python 2.7, and 3.4+ -For Python 2, version 2.7.9 or newer is *strongly* -recommended for the improved SSL support. In addition to the requirements +**Prerequisites**: Tornado runs on Python 2.7, and 3.4+. +The updates to the `ssl` module in Python 2.7.9 are required +(in some distributions, these updates may be available in +older python versions). In addition to the requirements which will be installed automatically by ``pip`` or ``setup.py install``, the following optional packages may be useful: