Apply ruff formatting and linting along with relevant refactoring #88

Job	Run time
Pre-commit checks	1m 45s
Build versioned package	1m 1s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on macos-latest)	6m 56s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on macos-latest)	7m 15s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on macos-latest)	8m 6s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on macos-latest)	7m 21s
Pytest (Python 3.8 on ubuntu-latest)	5m 4s
Pytest (Python 3.9 on ubuntu-latest)	6m 34s
Pytest (Python 3.10 on ubuntu-latest)	5m 6s
Pytest (Python 3.11 on ubuntu-latest)	4m 39s
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