refactoring for clarity #165

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	# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Renaissance Computing Institute. All rights reserved.
	# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Renaissance Computing Institute. All rights reserved.
	#
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-RENCI
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

	name: PyLint the codebase

	# trigger event is a push to the main repo branch (or a manual launch)
	on:
	workflow_dispatch:
	push:
	branches:
	- main

	# job definitions
	jobs:
	run_pylint:
	name: Execute pylint

	runs-on: ubuntu-latest

	strategy:
	matrix:
	python-version: ["3.12"]

	steps:
	- uses: actions/checkout@v3

	- name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
	uses: actions/setup-python@v4
	with:
	python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}

	- name: Install dependencies
	run: \|
	python -m pip install --upgrade pip
	pip install pylint
	if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi

	- name: Pylint the codebase
	run: \|
	pylint --rcfile=.pylintrc --recursive=y ./

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