[Bug]: build_release_candidate fails with `py38-docs is misconfigured`

[kennknowles]

What happened?

Running the job for the 2.57.0 release, we get this: https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/runs/9555799589/job/26339747929

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Priority: 2 (default / most bugs should be filed as P2)

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