fix: Linting Errors & VS Code config

- Add additional settings to VS Code for formatter changes in plugins
- Fix black formatting
- Fix flake8 errors due to long lines
- Fix flake8 errors due to type comparisons

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {
-    "python.formatting.provider": "black",
     "cSpell.words": [
         "Dupras",
         "hscommon"
@@ -10,4 +9,8 @@
     ],
     "python.languageServer": "Pylance",
     "yaml.schemaStore.enable": true,
+    "[python]": {
+        "editor.formatOnSave": true,
+        "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.black-formatter"
+    }
 }