Upgrade pre-commit repos and add ruff-check; add "dev" optional

[mwtoews]

This PR does a few useful things:

• Update the pre-commit repos (via pre-commit autoupdate),
• Add ruff check; this required modifying noqa: E722 to ignore bare except
• Add a "dev" optional install, with some development tools. This allows (e.g.) uv sync --all-extras (docs here). In otherwords, it allows pip install -e .[dev] to install development tools as the optional/extra.

[JamesParrott]

Thanks Mike. Is there any point continuing to run pylint, if we add normal Ruff, or can that be dropped?

[mwtoews]

I'm considering that too, but for a later PR. I think there could be a few missing rules in ruff for pylint, but I could be mistaken. Certainly the main rules are fully implemented in ruff.

[JamesParrott]

I can't remember why I picked Pylint over Ruff back in September, but even though it's done its job very well I originally picked Pylint over Ruff to support Python 2, so it's fine to drop it now. It'll tidy the config file up, and allow removal of the pylint disable directives.

[JamesParrott]

Thanks Mike.