🔧 Implement Ruff as check instead of Black creating a commit

.github/workflows/python-checks.yml

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+name: Ensure formatted code
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [ opened, edited, reopened, synchronize, ready_for_review ]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  format_check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install ruff
+        run: pip install ruff
+      - name: Check formatting for Python code
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          format_output=$(ruff format --check)
+          exit_code=$?
+          if [ $exit_code -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "All Python code is properly formatted."
+            gh pr comment ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} --body "All Python code is properly formatted."
+          else
+            echo "$format_output"
+            echo "Errors:" > format_output.txt
+            echo '```' >> format_output.txt
+            echo "$format_output" >> format_output.txt
+            echo '```' >> format_output.txt
+            echo "Some Python code is not properly formatted." >> format_output.txt
+            echo "Please run 'ruff format' to format the code." >> format_output.txt
+            gh pr comment ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} --bodyfile format_output.txt
+            exit 1
+          fi
+  lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install ruff
+        run: pip install ruff
+      - name: Lint Python code
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          check_output=$(ruff check)
+          exit_code=$?
+          if [ $exit_code -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "All Python code is properly formatted."
+            gh pr comment ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} --body "No linting errors found."
+          else
+            echo "$check_output" > check_output.txt
+            echo "Some Python code has linting errors." >> check_output.txt
+            echo "Please run 'ruff check --fix' to fix the errors." >> check_output.txt
+           gh pr comment ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} --body "```\n$(cat check_output.txt)\n```"
+            exit 1
+          fi