Remove Python 2 mentions (#85353)

lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py

@@ -1900,18 +1900,18 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             the execution to hang (especially if no input data is specified)
         :kw environ_update: dictionary to *update* environ variables with
         :kw umask: Umask to be used when running the command. Default None
-        :kw encoding: Since we return native strings, on python3 we need to
+        :kw encoding: Since we return strings, we need to
             know the encoding to use to transform from bytes to text.  If you
             want to always get bytes back, use encoding=None.  The default is
             "utf-8".  This does not affect transformation of strings given as
             args.
-        :kw errors: Since we return native strings, on python3 we need to
+        :kw errors: Since we return strings, we need to
             transform stdout and stderr from bytes to text.  If the bytes are
             undecodable in the ``encoding`` specified, then use this error
             handler to deal with them.  The default is ``surrogate_or_strict``
             which means that the bytes will be decoded using the
             surrogateescape error handler if available (available on all
-            python3 versions we support) otherwise a UnicodeError traceback
+            Python versions we support) otherwise a UnicodeError traceback
             will be raised.  This does not affect transformations of strings
             given as args.
         :kw expand_user_and_vars: When ``use_unsafe_shell=False`` this argument
@@ -1919,10 +1919,8 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             are expanded before running the command. When ``True`` a string such as
             ``$SHELL`` will be expanded regardless of escaping. When ``False`` and
             ``use_unsafe_shell=False`` no path or variable expansion will be done.
-        :kw pass_fds: When running on Python 3 this argument
-            dictates which file descriptors should be passed
-            to an underlying ``Popen`` constructor. On Python 2, this will
-            set ``close_fds`` to False.
+        :kw pass_fds: This argument dictates which file descriptors should be passed
+            to an underlying ``Popen`` constructor.
         :kw before_communicate_callback: This function will be called
             after ``Popen`` object will be created
             but before communicating to the process.
@@ -1933,11 +1931,10 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         :kw handle_exceptions: This flag indicates whether an exception will
             be handled inline and issue a failed_json or if the caller should
             handle it.
-        :returns: A 3-tuple of return code (integer), stdout (native string),
-            and stderr (native string).  On python2, stdout and stderr are both
-            byte strings.  On python3, stdout and stderr are text strings converted
-            according to the encoding and errors parameters.  If you want byte
-            strings on python3, use encoding=None to turn decoding to text off.
+        :returns: A 3-tuple of return code (int), stdout (str), and stderr (str).
+            stdout and stderr are text strings converted according to the encoding
+            and errors parameters.  If you want byte strings, use encoding=None
+            to turn decoding to text off.
         """
         # used by clean args later on
         self._clean = None

lib/ansible/modules/pip.py

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ options:
   virtualenv_python:
     description:
       - The Python executable used for creating the virtual environment.
-        For example V(python3.12), V(python2.7). When not specified, the
+        For example V(python3.13). When not specified, the
         Python version used to run the ansible module is used. This parameter
         should not be used when O(virtualenv_command) is using V(pyvenv) or
         the C(-m venv) module.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ options:
     description:
       - The explicit executable or pathname for the C(pip) executable,
         if different from the Ansible Python interpreter. For
-        example V(pip3.3), if there are both Python 2.7 and 3.3 installations
-        in the system and you want to run pip for the Python 3.3 installation.
+        example V(pip3.13), if there are multiple Python installations
+        in the system and you want to run pip for the Python 3.13 installation.
       - Mutually exclusive with O(virtualenv) (added in 2.1).
       - Does not affect the Ansible Python interpreter.
       - The C(setuptools) package must be installed for both the Ansible Python interpreter
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ notes:
      the virtualenv needs to be created.
    - Although it executes using the Ansible Python interpreter, the pip module shells out to
      run the actual pip command, so it can use any pip version you specify with O(executable).
-     By default, it uses the pip version for the Ansible Python interpreter. For example, pip3 on python 3, and pip2 or pip on python 2.
+     By default, it uses the pip version for the Ansible Python interpreter.
    - The interpreter used by Ansible
      (see R(ansible_python_interpreter, ansible_python_interpreter))
      requires the setuptools package, regardless of the version of pip set with
@@ -197,11 +197,11 @@ EXAMPLES = """
     virtualenv: /my_app/venv
     virtualenv_site_packages: yes
 
-- name: Install bottle into the specified (virtualenv), using Python 2.7
+- name: Install bottle into the specified (virtualenv), using Python 3.13
   ansible.builtin.pip:
     name: bottle
     virtualenv: /my_app/venv
-    virtualenv_command: virtualenv-2.7
+    virtualenv_command: virtualenv-3.13
 
 - name: Install bottle within a user home directory
   ansible.builtin.pip:
@@ -227,10 +227,10 @@ EXAMPLES = """
     requirements: /my_app/requirements.txt
     extra_args: "--no-index --find-links=file:///my_downloaded_packages_dir"
 
-- name: Install bottle for Python 3.3 specifically, using the 'pip3.3' executable
+- name: Install bottle for Python 3.13 specifically, using the 'pip3.13' executable
   ansible.builtin.pip:
     name: bottle
-    executable: pip3.3
+    executable: pip3.13
 
 - name: Install bottle, forcing reinstallation if it's already installed
   ansible.builtin.pip:
@@ -460,9 +460,7 @@ def _get_pip(module, env=None, executable=None):
             candidate_pip_basenames = (executable,)
     elif executable is None and env is None and _have_pip_module():
         # If no executable or virtualenv were specified, use the pip module for the current Python interpreter if available.
-        # Use of `__main__` is required to support Python 2.6 since support for executing packages with `runpy` was added in Python 2.7.
-        # Without it Python 2.6 gives the following error: pip is a package and cannot be directly executed
-        pip = [sys.executable, '-m', 'pip.__main__']
+        pip = [sys.executable, '-m', 'pip']
 
     if pip is None:
         if env is None:

lib/ansible/modules/raw.py

@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ author:
 """
 
 EXAMPLES = r"""
-- name: Bootstrap a host without python2 installed
-  ansible.builtin.raw: dnf install -y python2 python2-dnf libselinux-python
+- name: Bootstrap a host without Python installed
+  ansible.builtin.raw: dnf install -y python3 python3-libdnf
 
 - name: Run a command that uses non-posix shell-isms (in this example /bin/sh doesn't handle redirection and wildcards together but bash does)
   ansible.builtin.raw: cat < /tmp/*txt