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by maxerickson 2737 days ago
I guess you aren't missing anything. They do security releases for 5 years after the release of a minor version:

https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#security-branches

Arbitrary, but not senseless or anything.

If you drill into the security releases, they are pretty small patches backported from later releases, not a huge burden.