Remove unnecessary parentheses, use f-string, rm "object"

[mwtoews]

These changes were discovered using:

pyupgrade --py37-plus `find . -name "*.py"`

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #2061 (5ed78a8) into main (98390f5) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

Additional details and impacted files

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  Lines        3084     3084           
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  Hits         3047     3047           
  Misses         26       26           
  Partials       11       11           

[staticdev]

@mwtoews great finding, thanks. I would like to add pyupgrade permanently and execute this command on our scripts/lint.sh as another poetry run command. Could you add that to your PR? For that you will also need to do poetry add --dev pyupgrade>=3.3.1.