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Should this say "The package is installed by default"?
From this it is unclear what version is shipped, however I can see that it is 3.6 that is installed on my test server.

Reported by: tristanhoar

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.0_release_notes/new-features#annotations:cf21f144-9fcd-4d12-93cb-05ec32a651df

Note that I got python3 command installed on the RHEL 8 available from https://developers.redhat.com/rhel8/

Hello,
Thanks for your feedback!

Depending on the use case, the python3 package might or might not be installed on the system - I adjusted the wording to reflect that:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.0_release_notes/new-features#web-servers-databases-dynamic-languages

Unfortunately, there are various scenarios which result in the package (not) being installed: selected choices in the installer, layered products, container images, Ansible, etc.

I have confirmed, using a custom repo with a modified package, that `fwupd` is the culprit that pulls in python3 into the default RHEL8 installation ("Server with GUI"). I've opened a bug for it: BZ#1724593.