There’s no “basically”. Stick a fork in it; it’s done: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
It might not be supported by the consortium, but python2 still lives, slowly, in one place or another:
> The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's Python 2.7 package at June 2024.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
At this point in RHEL it is only "deprecated", not "obsolete".
Which is better than this mess with Lua situation.
It might not be supported by the consortium, but python2 still lives, slowly, in one place or another:
> The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's Python 2.7 package at June 2024.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
At this point in RHEL it is only "deprecated", not "obsolete".