Update Release Script Instructions and Python Publishing Scripts #4458
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Motivation
This PR updates the release scripts to ensure more robust and consistent release processes. The changes include modifying the git tagging instructions to prevent potential mis-tags and updating the Python scripts to use Python 3 explicitly, which aligns with best practices for Python development.
Changes
Release Guide Modification: Using ^{} ensures that the tag is created for the commit itself, not rc tag to be deleted.
Python Publishing Script: Changed all instances of
python
topython3
, modern operation systems default haspython3
, but not all haspython