Index: tornado-4.4.2/tornado/test/runtests.py
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--- tornado-4.4.2.orig/tornado/test/runtests.py
+++ tornado-4.4.2/tornado/test/runtests.py
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ def main():
     # 3.5.2's PendingDeprecationWarning became a DeprecationWarning in 3.6.
     warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning,
                             message=".*legacy __aiter__ protocol")
+    # simply ignore all async-related deprecations, for a rough support for python 3.6
+    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning,
+                            message="async")
 
     logging.getLogger("tornado.access").setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)