I think with a bit of validation this is definitely possible. Photon 3 uses Python 3 as it's default, and i'm not even positive why Python 2 is there.

Our tooling installs two RPMs that would certainly pull it in -- python-netifaces and python-requests, and it has long been something I wondered about what was requiring these (they've been there since I've been on the project). But, we can first install the Python 3 variant of them and go through testing to make sure everything is good.

on CentOS, such a switch isn't possible because the rpm package requires Python 2. Photon does not have that:

$ rpm -q --whatrequires python2
python-six-1.11.0-3.ph3.noarch
python-ipaddress-1.0.22-2.ph3.noarch
python-idna-2.7-1.ph3.noarch
python-pyparsing-2.2.0-3.ph3.noarch
python-packaging-17.1-3.ph3.noarch
python-pycparser-2.18-1.ph3.noarch
python-cffi-1.11.5-4.ph3.x86_64
python-setuptools-40.2.0-2.ph3.noarch
python-pyasn1-0.4.4-1.ph3.noarch
python-enum34-1.1.6-2.ph3.noarch
python-asn1crypto-0.24.0-1.ph3.noarch
python-cryptography-2.8-1.ph3.x86_64
python-urllib3-1.23-2.ph3.noarch
python-enum-0.4.7-2.ph3.noarch
python-pyOpenSSL-18.0.0-3.ph3.noarch
python-chardet-3.0.4-1.ph3.noarch
python-requests-2.19.1-4.ph3.noarch
python-netifaces-0.10.9-1.ph3.x86_64

$ rpm -q --whatrequires python3
python3-six-1.11.0-3.ph3.noarch
python3-idna-2.7-1.ph3.noarch
python3-markupsafe-1.0-3.ph3.x86_64
python3-jinja2-2.10-1.ph3.noarch
python3-pycparser-2.18-1.ph3.noarch
python3-cffi-1.11.5-4.ph3.x86_64
python3-pyparsing-2.2.0-3.ph3.noarch
python3-packaging-17.1-3.ph3.noarch
python3-pyasn1-0.4.4-1.ph3.noarch
python3-asn1crypto-0.24.0-1.ph3.noarch
python3-cryptography-2.8-1.ph3.x86_64
python3-pyOpenSSL-18.0.0-3.ph3.noarch
python3-urllib3-1.23-2.ph3.noarch
python3-chardet-3.0.4-1.ph3.noarch
python3-jsonpointer-2.0-1.ph3.noarch
python3-netifaces-0.10.9-1.ph3.x86_64
python3-prettytable-0.7.2-6.ph3.noarch
python3-oauthlib-2.1.0-1.ph3.noarch
python3-deepmerge-0.0.5-2.ph3.noarch
python3-requests-2.19.1-4.ph3.noarch
motd-0.1.3-5.ph3.noarch
python3-PyYAML-3.13-6.ph3.x86_64
python3-xml-3.7.5-10.ph3.x86_64
python3-setuptools-3.7.5-10.ph3.noarch
cloud-init-19.4-11.ph3.noarch
python3-pip-21.0.1-1.ph3.noarch

This is from a recent build of Photon 3 OVA with K8s 1.20.4. I don't see any system packages requiring Python 2, where as Python3 is required by motd and cloud-init.

Remove python2 from CAPI Photon images #578

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