Add CI runs for testing upb Python wheels

This restores the Python wheel CI runs from the old upb repo with only minor
changes. I had to update a path in one of the `py_wheel` rules and also make a
slight tweak to ensure that the `descriptor.upb_minitable.{h,c}` files make it
into the source wheels. The change in text_format_test.py is not strictly
necessary but is a small simplification I made while I was trying to debug an
issue with CRLF newlines.

I had to update test_util.py to use `importlib` to access the golden files from
the installed `protobuftests` package. I suspect the previous incarnation of
thse test runs was somehow reading the goldens from the repo checkout, but I
think the intention is to read them from `protobuftests` instead. This was a
bit tricky to get working because Python versions before 3.9 do not support
`importlib.resources.files()`. I set up the code to fall back on
`importlib.resources.open_binary()` in that case, but that function does not
support subdirectories, so this required putting an `__init__.py` file inside
the `testdata` directory to make sure it is treated as a Python package.

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README.md

Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

Copyright 2023 Google LLC

Overview

Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. You can learn more about it in protobuf's documentation.

This README file contains protobuf installation instructions. To install protobuf, you need to install the protocol compiler (used to compile .proto files) and the protobuf runtime for your chosen programming language.

Protobuf Compiler Installation

The protobuf compiler is written in C++. If you are using C++, please follow the C++ Installation Instructions to install protoc along with the C++ runtime.

For non-C++ users, the simplest way to install the protocol compiler is to download a pre-built binary from our GitHub release page.

In the downloads section of each release, you can find pre-built binaries in zip packages: protoc-$VERSION-$PLATFORM.zip. It contains the protoc binary as well as a set of standard .proto files distributed along with protobuf.

If you are looking for an old version that is not available in the release page, check out the Maven repository.

These pre-built binaries are only provided for released versions. If you want to use the github main version at HEAD, or you need to modify protobuf code, or you are using C++, it's recommended to build your own protoc binary from source.

If you would like to build protoc binary from source, see the C++ Installation Instructions.

Protobuf Runtime Installation

Protobuf supports several different programming languages. For each programming language, you can find instructions in the corresponding source directory about how to install protobuf runtime for that specific language:

LanguageSource
C++ (include C++ runtime and protoc)src
Javajava
Pythonpython
Objective-Cobjectivec
C#csharp
Rubyruby
Goprotocolbuffers/protobuf-go
PHPphp
Dartdart-lang/protobuf
JavaScriptprotocolbuffers/protobuf-javascript

Quick Start

The best way to learn how to use protobuf is to follow the tutorials in our developer guide.

If you want to learn from code examples, take a look at the examples in the examples directory.

Documentation

The complete documentation is available at the Protocol Buffers doc site.

Support Policy

Read about our version support policy to stay current on support timeframes for the language libraries.

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