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Should we require Python to build Halide? #5171

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We currently don't require Python be present on the host system (unless you want to test the python bindings or certain apps). But as a practical matter, every system you can build Halide on is going to have Python 3.x available; by requiring it, we could allow simple build-helper tools (e.g. binary2cpp, build_halide_h) to be written in Python instead of C++, which might be desirable:

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