[DO NOT SUBMIT][TESTING] testing changes to RC validation

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Merging #16944 (b70a0ad) into release-2.37.0 (39895d1) will increase coverage by 27.86%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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##           release-2.37.0   #16944       +/-   ##
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+ Coverage           46.79%   74.65%   +27.86%     
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  Files                 203      655      +452     
  Lines               20044    82313    +62269     
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+ Hits                 9379    61450    +52071     
- Misses               9665    19863    +10198     
  Partials             1000     1000               

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
sdks/python/apache_beam/version.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
sdks/python/apache_beam/runners/sdf_utils.py	94.87% <0.00%> (ø)
sdks/python/apache_beam/transforms/ptransform.py	93.54% <0.00%> (ø)
sdks/python/apache_beam/io/concat_source.py	92.75% <0.00%> (ø)
...on/apache_beam/runners/direct/sdf_direct_runner.py	35.53% <0.00%> (ø)
...g/benchmarks/nexmark/queries/nexmark_query_util.py	0.00% <0.00%> (ø)
sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/wordcount.py	93.10% <0.00%> (ø)
...ks/python/apache_beam/runners/worker/statecache.py	96.15% <0.00%> (ø)
...hon/apache_beam/runners/worker/worker_pool_main.py	59.25% <0.00%> (ø)
sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/windowed_value.py	92.20% <0.00%> (ø)
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