Hancho is a simple, pleasant build system with few moving parts. Hancho fits comfortably in a single Python file and requires no installation, just copy-paste it into your source tree. Hancho is inspired by Ninja (for speed and simplicity) and Bazel (for syntax and extensibility). Like Ninja, it knows nothing about your build tools and is only trying to assemble and run commands as fast as possible. Unlike Ninja, you can use glob("*.cpp") and such to make things far less verbose. Like Bazel, you invoke build rules by calling them as if they were functions with keyword arguments. Unlike Bazel, you can create build rules that call arbitrary Python code (for better or worse). Hancho should suffice for small to medium sized projects.