python 2.7 marked as deprecated and EOL while 2.7.18 RC is available

[Dewayne Geraghty]

Its very confusing building ports at the moment.  At https://www.python.org/
there is a release candidate for 2.7.18, while our python 2.7 has been
marked as deprecated with an expiration date.  Can the Expiration Date of
2020-12-31 be retracted?

It appears that devel/scons, at least, requires python 2.7 to run; though
it builds with 3.7.
Regards, Dewayne.