Request for assistance (hopefully not OT)

[o1bigtenor]

Greetings

I was having space issues in my /usr directory so I deleted some
programs thinking that the space taken was more an issue than having
older versions of the program.

So one of the programs I deleted (using rm -r) was python3.9.
Python3.10 was already installed so I thought (naively!!!) that things
should continue working.
(Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 were also part of this cleanup.)

So now I have problems.

Following is the system barf that I get when I run '# apt upgrade'.

What can I do to correct this self-inflicted problem?

(running on debian testing 5.17

Setting up python2.7-minimal (2.7.18-13.1) ...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
/usr/bin/python2.7: can't open file
'/usr/lib/python2.7/py_compile.py': [Errno 2] No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing package python2.7-minimal (--configure):
 installed python2.7-minimal package post-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 2
Setting up python3.9-minimal (3.9.12-1) ...
update-binfmts: warning: /usr/share/binfmts/python3.9: no executable
/usr/bin/python3.9 found, but continuing anyway as you request
/var/lib/dpkg/info/python3.9-minimal.postinst: 51: /usr/bin/python3.9: not found
dpkg: error processing package python3.9-minimal (--configure):
 installed python3.9-minimal package post-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3.9:
 python3.9 depends on python3.9-minimal (= 3.9.12-1); however:
  Package python3.9-minimal is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3.9 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2.7:
 python2.7 depends on python2.7-minimal (= 2.7.18-13.1); however:
  Package python2.7-minimal is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python2.7 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3.9-dev:
 python3.9-dev depends on python3.9 (= 3.9.12-1); however:
  Package python3.9 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3.9-dev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
. . .
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python2.7-minimal
 python3.9-minimal
 python3.9
 python2.7
 python3.9-dev