diff --git a/srcpkgs/python/patches/CVE-2019-5010.patch b/srcpkgs/python/patches/CVE-2019-5010.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index aabdc01a45e..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python/patches/CVE-2019-5010.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-commit 06b15424b0dcacb1c551b2a36e739fffa8d0c595
-Author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
-Date:   Tue Jan 15 15:11:52 2019 -0800
-
-    bpo-35746: Fix segfault in ssl's cert parser (GH-11569)
-    
-    
-    Fix a NULL pointer deref in ssl module. The cert parser did not handle CRL
-    distribution points with empty DP or URI correctly. A malicious or buggy
-    certificate can result into segfault.
-    
-    Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
-    
-    https://bugs.python.org/issue35746
-    (cherry picked from commit a37f52436f9aa4b9292878b72f3ff1480e2606c3)
-    
-    Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
-
-diff --git Modules/_ssl.c Modules/_ssl.c
-index a96c419260..19bb1207b4 100644
---- Modules/_ssl.c
-+++ Modules/_ssl.c
-@@ -1223,6 +1223,10 @@ _get_crl_dp(X509 *certificate) {
-         STACK_OF(GENERAL_NAME) *gns;
- 
-         dp = sk_DIST_POINT_value(dps, i);
-+        if (dp->distpoint == NULL) {
-+            /* Ignore empty DP value, CVE-2019-5010 */
-+            continue;
-+        }
-         gns = dp->distpoint->name.fullname;
- 
-         for (j=0; j < sk_GENERAL_NAME_num(gns); j++) {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python/template b/srcpkgs/python/template
index bdc0f2cf1fc..c2a8696950c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python/template
@@ -3,20 +3,20 @@
 # THIS PKG MUST BE SYNCHRONIZED WITH "srcpkgs/python-tkinter".
 #
 pkgname=python
-version=2.7.15
-revision=5
+version=2.7.16
+revision=1
 wrksrc="Python-${version}"
+pycompile_dirs="usr/lib/python2.7"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libffi-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel libressl-devel expat-devel
  sqlite-devel bzip2-devel zlib-devel"
 depends="ca-certificates"
-pycompile_dirs="usr/lib/python2.7"
 short_desc="Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.org>"
-homepage="https://www.python.org"
 license="Python-2.0"
+homepage="https://www.python.org"
 distfiles="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${version}/Python-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=22d9b1ac5b26135ad2b8c2901a9413537e08749a753356ee913c84dbd2df5574
+checksum=f222ef602647eecb6853681156d32de4450a2c39f4de93bd5b20235f2e660ed7
 
 alternatives="
  python:idle:/usr/bin/idle2.7