RHEL8 doesn't include a Python 2 runtime that is supported for the whole life of the distro. There are a couple exceptions where Python 2 is used at build time,

RHEL8 doesn't include a Python 2 runtime that is supported for the whole life of the distro. There are a couple exceptions where Python 2 is used at build time, but that's it. At the point when people started to work on pcp-dstat, it was clear that if you wanted X in the base distribution it had to be Python 3 compatible.