Apply ruff formatting and linting along with relevant refactoring #87

Job	Run time
Build versioned package	1m 2s
Pre-commit checks	1m 15s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on macos-latest)	6m 53s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on macos-latest)	7m 5s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on macos-latest)	12m 0s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on macos-latest)	10m 52s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on ubuntu-latest)	5m 4s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on ubuntu-latest)	6m 24s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on ubuntu-latest)	4m 58s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on ubuntu-latest)	4m 24s
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