chore: import upstream snapshot with attribution

tools/python_version_checker.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2025 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Script for checking the compatibility of the Python interpreter with ESP-IDF.
+#
+# There are related tools/detect_python.{sh,fish} scripts which are called earlier when the paths are not properly
+# set-up and they only intend to prefer the use of Python 3 over Python 2. Why not more? All possible executables
+# (python3.10, python3.11, ...) cannot be hardcoded there and at the end, the user is responsible to set-up a system
+# where "python" or "python3" of compatible version is available.
+import sys
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+
+OLDEST_PYTHON_SUPPORTED = (3, 10)  # keep it as tuple for comparison with sys.version_info
+
+
+def _ver_to_str(it: Iterable) -> str:
+    return '.'.join(str(x) for x in it)
+
+
+def is_supported() -> bool:
+    return sys.version_info[:2] >= OLDEST_PYTHON_SUPPORTED[:2]
+
+
+def check() -> None:
+    if not is_supported():
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f'ESP-IDF supports Python {_ver_to_str(OLDEST_PYTHON_SUPPORTED)} or newer but you are using Python '
+            f'{_ver_to_str(sys.version_info[:3])}. Please upgrade your installation as described in the documentation.'
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    check()