Apply ruff formatting and linting along with relevant refactoring #78

Job	Run time
Pre-commit checks	33s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on macos-latest)	8m 6s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on macos-latest)	7m 39s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on macos-latest)	10m 55s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on macos-latest)	9m 38s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on ubuntu-latest)	5m 22s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on ubuntu-latest)	6m 32s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on ubuntu-latest)	5m 14s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on ubuntu-latest)	4m 24s
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