Remove the PyPI token from GitHub Actions in favor of the Trusted Publishing

[jeongyoonlee]

Proposed changes

This PR removes the use of the PyPI API token from the python-publish.yml GitHub Actions. The project has a Trusted Publisher configured on PyPI and doesn't require the API token for publishing (ref: https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/).

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the release publishing workflow to rely on PyPI Trusted Publishing (OIDC) instead of providing a PyPI API token, aligning the repo’s CI/CD publishing approach with PyPI’s “Trusted Publishers” model.

Changes:

• Removed use of secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN from the PyPI publish step.
• Left publishing to be handled by pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish without an explicit password (intended to use OIDC).

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.github/workflows/python-publish.yml:70

• Trusted Publishing via OIDC requires the workflow/job to grant the id-token: write permission (and typically contents: read) so pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish can request an OIDC token. With the password input removed, this job will fail to authenticate unless those permissions are added at the workflow or upload_all job level.

      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1

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[ras44]

LGTM 👍