Document ssl module requirements in index.rst

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source tarball or clone the `git repository
<https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado>`_ 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: