Consolidate open Dependabot dependency updates and resolve lockfile merge conflicts

[Copilot]

This PR aggregates the currently open Dependabot updates into the integration branch so dependency maintenance can proceed in one reviewable batch. Where PRs overlapped in poetry.lock, conflicts were resolved to keep the latest intended package versions from the merged update set.

• Scope

  • Merged Dependabot update branches for PRs: #90, #91, #92, #95, #96, #97, #98, #109, #111, #112, #113, #114, #116, #117, #118, #119, #121, #122, #123, #124.
  • Primary touched files are dependency manifests: pyproject.toml and poetry.lock.

• Dependency update consolidation

  • Combined independent package bumps into a single integration line to reduce PR-by-PR drift and repeated lockfile churn.
  • Preserved the merged branch’s effective dependency graph when overlapping updates targeted the same lockfile regions.

• Conflict handling

  • Resolved repeated poetry.lock conflicts in package metadata/version blocks and marker sections by selecting the newer merged state and removing conflict artifacts.

# resolved lockfile section (representative)
[[package]]
name = "nbconvert"
version = "7.17.1"
description = "Convert Jupyter Notebooks (.ipynb files) to other formats."
python-versions = ">=3.9"

[mathun3003]

@copilot fix the code style checks

[mathun3003]

@copilot fix the black, mypy, and pylint code style checks by looking at the error messages and fixing the python code accordingly.