Reformat codebase with Ruff autoformatter and remove .ipynb checkpoints and *.pyc files

.github/workflows/formatting.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+name: Formatting
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  formatting:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Code Formatting and Trailing Whitespace Check
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Run Ruff for code formatting check
+        uses: astral-sh/ruff-action@v1
+        with:
+          args: "format --check"

.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+name: Pre-commit
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  pre-commit:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'  # Specify the Python version you need
+
+      - name: Install pre-commit
+        run: |
+          pip install pre-commit
+
+      - name: Run pre-commit hooks
+        run: |
+          pre-commit run --all-files