Ahmed Ibrahim e7bffc5a20 [codex] Accept string input for Python turns (#23162)
## Summary
- Allow thread.turn and turn.steer, including async variants, to accept
RunInput so plain strings work alongside typed input objects.
- Export RunInput and update the SDK artifact generator so regenerated
turn methods keep the same signature and normalization.
- Update docs, examples, notebook cells, and tests to use string
shorthand for text-only turns while keeping typed inputs for multimodal
input.

## Validation
- uv run --extra dev ruff format .
- uv run --extra dev ruff check --output-format=github .
- python3 -m py_compile sdk/python/src/openai_codex/__init__.py
sdk/python/src/openai_codex/api.py
sdk/python/src/openai_codex/_inputs.py
sdk/python/scripts/update_sdk_artifacts.py
sdk/python/tests/test_public_api_signatures.py
sdk/python/tests/test_app_server_streaming.py
sdk/python/tests/test_app_server_turn_controls.py
sdk/python/tests/test_real_app_server_integration.py
- python3 -c "import json;
json.load(open('sdk/python/notebooks/sdk_walkthrough.ipynb'))"
- sdk/python/.venv/bin/python -c "import inspect, openai_codex; from
openai_codex import Thread, AsyncThread, TurnHandle, AsyncTurnHandle,
RunInput; funcs=[Thread.run, Thread.turn, AsyncThread.run,
AsyncThread.turn, TurnHandle.steer, AsyncTurnHandle.steer]; assert
all(inspect.signature(fn).parameters['input'].annotation == 'RunInput'
for fn in funcs); assert RunInput is openai_codex.RunInput"
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