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@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ the HermitCore kernel and applications you need:
  * Netwide Assember (NASM)
  * recent host compiler such as GCC
  * HermitCore cross-toolchain, i.e. Binutils, GCC, newlib, pthreads
+ * Python3
 
 ### HermitCore cross-toolchain