gh-139198: Remove Tools/scripts/checkpip.py script (GH-139199)

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Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2025-09-21-10-30-08.gh-issue-139198.Fm7NfU.rst

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+Remove ``Tools/scripts/checkpip.py`` script.

Tools/scripts/README

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 This directory contains a collection of executable Python scripts that are
 useful while building, extending or managing Python.
 
-checkpip.py               Checks the version of the projects bundled in ensurepip
-                          are the latest available
 combinerefs.py            A helper for analyzing PYTHONDUMPREFS output
 divmod_threshold.py       Determine threshold for switching from longobject.c
                           divmod to _pylong.int_divmod()

Tools/scripts/checkpip.py

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-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""
-Checks that the version of the projects bundled in ensurepip are the latest
-versions available.
-"""
-import ensurepip
-import json
-import urllib.request
-import sys
-
-
-def main():
-    outofdate = False
-
-    for project, version in ensurepip._PROJECTS:
-        data = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(
-            "https://pypi.org/pypi/{}/json".format(project),
-            cadefault=True,
-        ).read().decode("utf8"))
-        upstream_version = data["info"]["version"]
-
-        if version != upstream_version:
-            outofdate = True
-            print("The latest version of {} on PyPI is {}, but ensurepip "
-                  "has {}".format(project, upstream_version, version))
-
-    if outofdate:
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()