Create python package

[teddygroves]

This change adds some more information into the pyproject.toml file

[Midnighter]

If we want to turn this into a real installable package, I propose applying a package cookiecutter to get started. What do you think?

[teddygroves]

Definitely agree - is there one you have in mind or generally prefer?

[teddygroves]

I found your cookiecutter cookiecutter-python-package and it seems like a good fit!

[teddygroves]

OK I applied cookiecutter-python-package.

As a result this PR makes some more consequential changes, in particular the licence and contact email. I went with MIT/[email protected] but I'm not 100% sure about either: @rgiessmann do you have thoughts?

[Midnighter]

I found your cookiecutter cookiecutter-python-package and it seems like a good fit!

Of course, I'm biased 😉. Let me push a few minor tweaks to the cookiecutter. Since you used cruft, it will be easy to update.

[Midnighter]

Overall the changes look good to me. I would also be fine with requiring Python 3.11+, which would avoid some of the type annotation issues that you ran into and would allow us to use some of the more modern language constructs.

[Midnighter]

This is the only exception, that I'm not fully onboard with. If this is for test cases, there is a better way.

[tool.ruff.extend-per-file-ignores]
"test_*.py" = ["S101"]