chore(deps): update dependency rules_python to v0.40.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
rules_python	http_archive	minor	0.38.0 -> 0.40.0

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Release Notes

bazelbuild/rules_python (rules_python)

v0.40.0

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{#v0-40-changed}

Changed

• Nothing changed.

{#v0-40-fixed}

Fixed

• (rules) Don't drop custom import paths if Bazel-builtin PyInfo is removed.
  (2414).

{#v0-40-added}

Added

• Nothing added.

{#v0-40-removed}

Removed

• (publish) Remove deprecated requirements.txt for the twine dependencies.
  Please use requirements_linux.txt instead.
• (python_repository) Use bazel's built in zstd support and remove attributes
  for customizing the zstd binary to be used for zstd archives in the
  {bzl:obj}python_repository repository_rule. This affects the
  {bzl:obj}python_register_toolchains and
  {bzl:obj}python_register_multi_toolchains callers in the WORKSPACE.

{#v0-39-0}

v0.39.0

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{#v0-39-0-changed}

Changed

• (deps) bazel_skylib 1.6.1 -> 1.7.1
• (deps) rules_cc 0.0.9 -> 0.0.14
• (deps) protobuf 24.4 -> 29.0-rc2
• (deps) rules_proto 6.0.0-rc1 -> 6.0.2
• (deps) stardoc 0.6.2 -> 0.7.1
• For bzlmod, Bazel 7.4 is now the minimum Bazel version.
• (toolchains) Use the latest indygreg toolchain release 20241016 for Python versions:
  • 3.9.20
  • 3.10.15
  • 3.11.10
  • 3.12.7
  • 3.13.0
• (pypi) The naming scheme for the bzlmod spoke repositories have changed as
  all of the given requirements.txt files are now parsed by default, to
  temporarily restore the behavior, you can use
  {bzl:obj}pip.parse.extra_hub_aliases, which will be removed or made noop in
  the future.

{#v0-39-0-fixed}

Fixed

• (precompiling) Skip precompiling (instead of erroring) if the legacy
  @bazel_tools//tools/python:autodetecting_toolchain is being used
  (#​2364).

{#v0-39-0-added}

Added

• Bazel 8 is now supported.
• (toolchain) Support for freethreaded Python toolchains is now available. Use
  the config flag //python/config_settings:py_freethreaded to toggle the
  selection of the free-threaded toolchains.
• (toolchain) {obj}py_runtime.abi_flags attribute and
  {obj}PyRuntimeInfo.abi_flags field added.

{#v0-39-0-removed}

Removed

• Support for Bazel 6 using bzlmod has been dropped.

{#v0-38-0}

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