Refactor for IO independent protocol implementation #151

Job	Run time
Build the documentation	34s
Check type hints (3.9)	29s
Check type hints (3.10)	21s
Check type hints (3.11)	21s
Check type hints (3.12)	23s
Check versioning / Check versioning for consistency	13s
Linting (3.10) / Linting	24s
Linting (3.11) / Linting	25s
Linting (3.12) / Linting	25s
Linting (3.9) / Linting	26s
Run tests (3.10) / Run all tests	28s
Run tests (3.11) / Run all tests	27s
Run tests (3.12) / Run all tests	27s
Run tests (3.9) / Run all tests	27s
Upload coverage to codecov.io	41s
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