Python Foundation support ended that long ago, but vendors maintained it for longer. Red Hat support for it through RHEL 7 ends 30 June 2024, however, and my guess is they’re the last ones.
For this use case it is probably fine to have 2.7.x installed to use for this. Just annoyed. The downside to having it that way is this weird stray python installed. Would rather use something to switch it around to make it easier to keep track. But in the end it didnt mater as someone else had already updated it and I did not have to bother. Maybe next time :)
