[Docs] Document UnboundedSource in the Python I/O connector guide

[Eliaaazzz]

Documents UnboundedSource in the Python I/O connector development guide, mirroring the UnboundedSource coverage in the Java guide.

The guide currently describes only the bounded BoundedSource / RangeTracker path, so the UnboundedSource, UnboundedReader, and CheckpointMark classes added in #38724 are undocumented on the website.

What changes

• The "Implementing the Source interface" intro now lists UnboundedSource alongside BoundedSource, and names the reader and checkpoint-mark classes each one needs.
• Implementing the UnboundedSource subclass - split, create_reader, get_checkpoint_mark_coder, the optional default_output_coder, and the absence of a per-record dedup hook (use Deduplicate after the read).
• Implementing the UnboundedReader subclass - start, advance, get_current, get_current_timestamp, get_watermark, get_checkpoint_mark, close, including the distinction between "no data right now" and a MAX_TIMESTAMP end of stream.
• Checkpoint marks - how a mark is persisted and replayed into create_reader, and the idempotence requirement on finalize_checkpoint.
• Reading from an UnboundedSource - an example source over a partitioned message queue, reading it with beam.io.Read, and the poll_interval / max_records_per_bundle / max_read_time_seconds knobs on ReadFromUnboundedSource.

The example was run on the DirectRunner against a fake queue before being added: beam.io.Read(QueueSource(...)) emits the expected records and, thanks to the default_output_coder override, types the output PCollection as bytes.

This replaces the earlier revision of this PR, which described how to write an unbounded Splittable DoFn instead of documenting the UnboundedSource API.

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[Abacn]

Let's use https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/ website. This PR won't be merged until Beam 2.76.0 released, at that time pydoc website is updated to have unbounded_source

[Eliaaazzz]

Thanks for the pointer. I switched it to the pydoc link with the release_latest param. It will resolve once 2.76.0 is out.

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"You must ..." often used as SKILLs for agents. The audience of Beam documentation is both human (and agents). Consider a plain tense: Create a subclass of .... Check this throughout the change.

[Eliaaazzz]

Thanks for the tip. I reworded to plain tense and checked the rest of the change for You must phrasing. I kept the two sentences saying your subclass must override the following methods, since they match the existing BoundedSource and RangeTracker sections word for word. Happy to reword those as well if you prefer.

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[damccorm]

Thanks!

[Abacn]

@damccorm Thanks for merging it. I forgot to comment to here that I was intended to merge this after Beam 2.76.0 release as the content is only available in this upcoming release