Issue984/switch to ruff

[Leahh02]

This PR fixes issue #984.

This PR will be compared with PR #986 which switches to pylint so we can decide which one to switch to.

[Leahh02]

This PR fixes issue #984.

This PR will be compared with PR #986 which switches to pylint so we can decide which one to switch to.

There are things that Ruff isn't picking up that I thought it would. For example, it's not picking up message E501, the line too long error, when it should be. This is because it's only checking rules sections ["E4", "E7", "E9", "F"] because that's the default for the select category of the configuration. We can add more sections to the select category or create a extend-select section to the configuration.

There are some message codes that I set to ignore in ruff.toml even though they are in "preview". It seems like "preview" is something they're working to introduce. I went ahead and added "preview" message codes into ruff.toml that were in setup.cfg so we'd have them there when they get added to a new release. These messages are PLR0914 and PLR0916