fix: make bazel 9 workspace recognize rules_python as the main module (#2501) Building with Bazel 9 using WORKSPACE results in an odd error that `PyInfo` isn't defined. Oddly, the error refers to `rules_python/python/private/reexports.bzl` for rules_python 0.28.0. This seems to only happen when the main module is rules_python. While Bazel 9 is supposed to drop workspace support, I've been advised it's better to keep testing WORKSPACE support until closer to when Bazel 9 fully removes it. My best guess about what's happening is Bazel's autoloading is triggering and somehow defining rules_python before it's recognized that the main module is rules_python. The autoloading appears to be triggered, eventually, by things in bazel_tools loading rules_python. While removing unnecessary `@bazel_tools` loads in rules_python helps, the particular case I can't find a clean solution to is when `@@rules_java//toolchains:toolchain_java11_definition` causes rules_python to be loaded. This appears to end up loading rules_python via `@bazel_tools//tools/jdk:BUILD`, which has has some py rules defined in it. To fix/work around this issue, `local_repository` can be used to define the `rules_python` repo before autoloading happens. This appears to take precedence over whatever logic autoloading has. Work towards https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/2469
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