[RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage

[Boris Kolpackov]

On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:49 +0200, Martin Liška wrote:

> My question is simple: can we starting using a scripting language like
> Python and replace usage of the AWK scripts?

I wonder what will be the expected way to obtain a suitable version of
Python if one is not available on the build machine? With awk I can
build it from source pretty much anywhere. Is building newer versions
of Python on older targets a similarly straightforward process (somehow
I doubt it)? What about Windows?