diff --git a/cmake/findDependencies.cmake b/cmake/findDependencies.cmake
index 3675bd5167c..bdfc171d7e9 100644
--- a/cmake/findDependencies.cmake
+++ b/cmake/findDependencies.cmake
@@ -42,22 +42,8 @@ set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)
 
 if(CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_EQUAL "3.12" OR CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_GREATER "3.12")
     find_package(Python COMPONENTS Interpreter)
-    if(NOT Python_Interpreter_FOUND)
-        message(WARNING "No python interpreter found - disabling matchcompiler.")
-        set(USE_MATCHCOMPILER_OPT "Off")
-    endif()
 else()
     find_package(PythonInterp 3 QUIET)
-    if(NOT PYTHONINTERP_FOUND)
-        set(PYTHONINTERP_FOUND "")
-        find_package(PythonInterp 2.7 QUIET)
-        if(NOT PYTHONINTERP_FOUND AND NOT USE_MATCHCOMPILER_OPT STREQUAL "Off")
-            message(WARNING "No python interpreter found - disabling matchcompiler.")
-            set(USE_MATCHCOMPILER_OPT "Off")
-        else()
-            message(WARNING "Support for Python 2.7 is deprecated (it went EOL in January 2020) and will be removed in Cppcheck 2.16 - please use Python 3.x instead.")
-        endif()
-    endif()
     if(PYTHONINTERP_FOUND)
         set(Python_EXECUTABLE ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
         set(Python_VERSION ${PYTHON_VERSION_STRING})
@@ -65,6 +51,11 @@ else()
     endif()
 endif()
 
+if(NOT Python_Interpreter_FOUND AND NOT USE_MATCHCOMPILER_OPT STREQUAL "Off")
+    message(WARNING "No python interpreter found - disabling matchcompiler.")
+    set(USE_MATCHCOMPILER_OPT "Off")
+endif()
+
 if(NOT USE_BUNDLED_TINYXML2)
     find_package(tinyxml2 QUIET)
     if(TARGET tinyxml2::tinyxml2)
diff --git a/htmlreport/README.txt b/htmlreport/README.txt
index 88a84a1637f..38c035e27f2 100644
--- a/htmlreport/README.txt
+++ b/htmlreport/README.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cppcheck-htmlreport
 This is a little utility to generate a html report of a XML file produced by
 cppcheck.
 
-The utility is implemented in Python (2.7+) and requires the pygments module
+The utility is implemented in Python and requires the pygments module
 to generate syntax highlighted source code.
 If you are using a Debian based Linux system, the pygments package can be 
 installed by following command:
diff --git a/releasenotes.txt b/releasenotes.txt
index 5afee3d96af..94dd2493697 100644
--- a/releasenotes.txt
+++ b/releasenotes.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Changed interface:
 -
 
 Deprecations:
+- The previously deprecated support for Python 2.7 has been removed. please use Python 3 instead.
 -
 
 Other:
diff --git a/test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py b/test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
index 4b40650cf09..31ac670110d 100755
--- a/test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
+++ b/test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
@@ -8,11 +8,7 @@
 import sys
 import tempfile
 
-if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
-    # For TestCase.assertIn().
-    import unittest2 as unittest
-else:
-    import unittest
+import unittest
 
 TEST_TOOLS_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 ROOT_DIR = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(TEST_TOOLS_DIR)))[0]
diff --git a/tools/reduce.py b/tools/reduce.py
index 595aaff18c8..64ab18f7ab2 100755
--- a/tools/reduce.py
+++ b/tools/reduce.py
@@ -38,17 +38,10 @@ def print_info(self):
         print('FILE=' + self.__file)
 
     def __communicate(self, p, timeout=None, **kwargs):
-        if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-            return p.communicate(**kwargs)
-        else:
-            return p.communicate(timeout=timeout)
+        return p.communicate(timeout=timeout)
 
     def runtool(self, filedata=None):
-        if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-            class TimeoutExpired(Exception):
-                pass
-        else:
-            TimeoutExpired = subprocess.TimeoutExpired
+        TimeoutExpired = subprocess.TimeoutExpired
 
         timeout = None
         if self.__elapsed_time: