Comment 2 for bug 1721394

going to mark invalid, how this install, (Beta amd64 (20170929) ended up without python-minimal is unknown.
Could have been from bad behavior from unattended-upgrades.
For historical info it had been removed as seen here when I installed python
Commit Log for Wed Oct 4 17:19:48 2017

Installed the following packages:
libpython-stdlib (2.7.14-2ubuntu1)
python (2.7.14-2ubuntu1)
python-minimal (2.7.14-2ubuntu1)
python2.7 (2.7.14-2ubuntu2)
python2.7-minimal (2.7.14-2ubuntu2)