[Python] Wheel / sdist build uses docstrings generation script we don't want to distribute
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### Describe the enhancement requested
See discussion on https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/49235
> [..] the question boils down to: would some people like to get the docstrings from the sdist, or not?
This is probably a matter how the sdist is being used at all: if it's only an intermediate step for building a wheel, then the docstrings can be generated when building a wheel. If the sdist is sometimes used as an end product of itself, then it might be better to ship the docstrings in the sdist.
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