diff --git a/packages/python2/build.sh b/packages/python2/build.sh
index aced5804a..b08b92948 100644
--- a/packages/python2/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python2/build.sh
@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DEVPACKAGE_DEPENDS="libcrypt-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_HOSTBUILD=true
 
 _MAJOR_VERSION=2.7
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.15
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=7
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=22d9b1ac5b26135ad2b8c2901a9413537e08749a753356ee913c84dbd2df5574
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.16
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=f222ef602647eecb6853681156d32de4450a2c39f4de93bd5b20235f2e660ed7
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 
 # The flag --with(out)-pymalloc (disable/enable specialized mallocs) is enabled by default and causes m suffix versions of python.