Revert "MAINT: small simplification of meson.build following best practices" (#54802)

* Revert "MAINT: small simplification of meson.build following best practices (#54737)"

This reverts commit ca42994.

* Update meson.build

* Update meson.build

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Co-authored-by: Thomas Li <[email protected]>

Author: phofl

meson.build

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 project(
     'pandas',
     'c', 'cpp', 'cython',
-    version: run_command(['python3', 'generate_version.py', '--print'], check: true).stdout().strip(),
+    version: run_command(['python', 'generate_version.py', '--print'], check: true).stdout().strip(),
     license: 'BSD-3',
     meson_version: '>=1.0.1',
     default_options: [