Set up linting CI checks

.github/workflows/matchers/pylint.json

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+{
+    "problemMatcher": [
+      {
+        "owner": "pylint-error",
+        "severity": "error",
+        "pattern": [
+          {
+            "regexp": "^(.+):(\\d+):(\\d+):\\s(([EF]\\d{4}):\\s.+)$",
+            "file": 1,
+            "line": 2,
+            "column": 3,
+            "message": 4,
+            "code": 5
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "owner": "pylint-warning",
+        "severity": "warning",
+        "pattern": [
+          {
+            "regexp": "^(.+):(\\d+):(\\d+):\\s(([CRW]\\d{4}):\\s.+)$",
+            "file": 1,
+            "line": 2,
+            "column": 3,
+            "message": 4,
+            "code": 5
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+}

.github/workflows/pylint.yaml

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+---
+    name: Run pylint
+
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        # To load bashrc
+        shell: bash -ieo pipefail {0}
+
+    on:
+      pull_request:
+        branches: [main, dev]
+        paths:
+          - "**/*.py"
+
+    concurrency:
+      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+
+    jobs:
+      build:
+        name: Lint Code Base
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+        steps:
+          - name: Checkout Code
+            uses: actions/checkout@v4
+            with:
+              # Full git history is needed to get a proper list of changed files within `super-linter`
+              fetch-depth: 0
+
+          - name: Set up Python 3.8
+            uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+            with:
+              python-version: 3.8
+
+          - name: Install dependencies
+            run: |
+              mkdir -p .github/linters
+              cp pyproject.toml .github/linters
+    
+          - name: Register pylint problem matcher
+            run: |
+              echo "::add-matcher::.github/workflows/matchers/pylint.json"
+    
+          - name: Pylint
+            uses: super-linter/super-linter/[email protected]
+            if: always()
+            env:
+              # Run linters only on new files for pylint to speed up the CI
+              VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: false
+              # Compare against the base branch
+              # This is only accessible on PR
+              DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ github.base_ref }}
+              GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+              # Run only pylint
+              VALIDATE_PYTHON: true
+              VALIDATE_PYTHON_PYLINT: true
+              PYTHON_PYLINT_CONFIG_FILE: pyproject.toml
+              FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: .*tests/.*.(json|zip|sol)