This commit prioritizes the improvement of several utility functions, along with certain changes for code optimization. The hashing function is renamed to 'sha1_hash' for better clarity, and a new 'loc' function is introduced to facilitate localization. Other changes include argument updates in 'find_hits' function, removal of verbosity related parameters, and version updates in '__init__.py' and 'pyproject.toml'. Several test files have also been updated to match the modifications in utility functions.

Updates to codebase will close #312 for now, could probably be better

…loses #242