Apply ruff formatting and linting along with relevant refactoring #79

Job	Run time
Pre-commit checks	48s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on macos-latest)	9m 6s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on macos-latest)	8m 44s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on macos-latest)	9m 34s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on macos-latest)	7m 51s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on ubuntu-latest)	4m 26s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on ubuntu-latest)	5m 47s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on ubuntu-latest)	4m 23s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on ubuntu-latest)	4m 28s
	55m 7s

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