There is a new pull request by mobinmob against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/mobinmob/void-packages python-tornado https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/14925 python-tornado: update to 5.1.1. 5.1.1 is the last version that supports python2.x and python3.x both. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/14925.patch is attached