feat: 🚨 add static analysis tools and fix issues

[nstringham]

• add autopep8 to format the code
• add pylint to find bad code
• fix some of the pylint warnings
• make developer experince better in vscode
• fix other minor bugs

this is a draft because not all the pylint warnings have bean fixed yet

help fixing pylint warnings would be appreciated

this PR also updates to python 3.11 so a change may be required before it can be run on pebalhost which only supports 3.10 in particular a substitute will need to be found for the built in toml module