From: Ben Darnell <ben@bendarnell.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:23:12 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document ssl module requirements in index.rst
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Document ssl module requirements in index.rst
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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index a5f166a3e..ed24eb623 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
 <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: