build(deps): bump basedpyright from 1.36.2 to 1.37.2 in /dev-tools/scripts (#15639)

* build(deps): bump basedpyright in /dev-tools/scripts

Bumps [basedpyright](https://github.com/detachhead/basedpyright) from 1.36.2 to 1.37.2.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/detachhead/basedpyright/releases)
- [Commits](DetachHead/basedpyright@v1.36.2...v1.37.2)

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: basedpyright
  dependency-version: 1.37.2
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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* fix: remove deprecated python function usage

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Author: dependabot[bot]

dev-tools/scripts/requirements.txt

@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ PyGithub==2.8.1
 # JIRA processing in githubPRs
 jira==3.10.5
 # type-checking in "make lint"
-basedpyright==1.36.2
+basedpyright==1.37.2
 # linting in "make lint"
 ruff==0.14.14

dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py

@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ def printFileContents(fileName: str):
   # even if we are wrong, we replace errors ... the ASCII chars
   # (which is what we mostly care about eg for the test seed) should
   # still survive:
-  txt = codecs.open(fileName, "r", encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding(), errors="replace").read()
+  txt = open(fileName, encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding(), errors="replace").read()
 
   # Encode to our output encoding (likely also system's default
   # encoding):