lancedb-gatefixer[bot] e5d4e9bf6e fix(python): normalize __version__ to PEP 440 (#4752)
Fixes #4749

Python's `__version__` forwards Cargo's SemVer spelling, so prereleases
report values such as `0.41.0-beta.17` while the installed package
metadata reports `0.41.0b17`.

Normalize the native version with the existing
`packaging.version.Version` dependency before exposing it in Python.
Keep native version sourcing so imports still work with `lancedb-compat`
and do not require distribution metadata. Regression tests cover
metadata equality and stable, alpha, beta, release-candidate, and
development versions with metadata lookups disabled.

Validation:

- Rebuilt the native extension through the uv-managed development
environment.
- Confirmed the metadata regression fails on the original code with the
reported string mismatch.
- Import tests, package metadata tests, the remote client user-agent
test, and CI Python dependency tests: 14 passed, 2 skipped (Windows-only
wheel check and uninstalled `lancedb-compat`).
- macOS ARM64/Python 3.13 dependency resolution and `uv lock --check`
pass with the platform-specific test dependency pins from current
`main`.
- Python-tree Ruff lint and formatting checks, focused Pyright check,
Rust formatting, and PR diff whitespace checks pass.
- Repository-wide Ruff lint reports existing findings in unchanged
`docs/web-tests` files.

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