fix: update pre-commit CI to use python 3.12

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Description

This PR fixes the formatting inconsistencies between local development environments and the CI pipeline.

The Issue

The CI pipeline was running pre-commit hooks using Python 3.10. However, developers running pre-commit locally with Python 3.12+ were generating code with line breaks inside f-string expressions. (PEP 701, introduced in Python 3.12, allows line breaks inside f-string braces). When pushed, this caused CI formatting failures.

The Fix

Instead of forcing local environments to downgrade to Python 3.10, this PR updates the syntax-check workflow in .github/workflows/checks.yml to use python-version: '3.12'. This aligns the CI with local 3.12+ environments.

Closes no specific issue.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the syntax-check workflow to run pre-commit with Python 3.12 and includes formatting changes produced under that interpreter. Several changes introduce Python 3.12-only multiline f-string syntax while the package still declares Python >=3.10 support.

Changes:

• Updates .github/workflows/checks.yml from Python 3.10 to 3.12.
• Reformats f-string expressions and arithmetic spacing across package, example, and test files.
• Touches assertion/log/error message formatting without intended behavioral changes.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
.github/workflows/checks.yml	Updates pre-commit CI Python version to 3.12.
aperturedb/CommonLibrary.py	Reformats configuration assertion messages.
aperturedb/CSVWriter.py	Reformats CSV conversion assertion messages.
aperturedb/ParallelQuery.py	Reformats query structure logging.
aperturedb/ParallelQuerySet.py	Reformats blob-count logging.
aperturedb/Query.py	Reformats time range string expressions.
aperturedb/Utils.py	Reformats schema visualization HTML strings and arithmetic spacing.
aperturedb/cli/configure.py	Reformats overwrite warning message.
examples/CelebADataKaggle.py	Reformats keypoint f-string construction.
examples/loading_with_models/get_tl_embeddings.py	Reformats embedding index display spacing.
test/conftest.py	Reformats expected-index assertion message.
test/test_Datawizard.py	Reformats arithmetic spacing in generated names.
test/test_Server.py	Reformats assertion message.
test/test_Stats.py	Reformats assertion message.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (9)

aperturedb/CommonLibrary.py:102

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

        assert "name" in config, f"name is required in the configuration: {
            clean_config}"

aperturedb/CSVWriter.py:71

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

    assert source_column in df.columns, f"source_column {
        source_column} not found in the input data"

aperturedb/CSVWriter.py:88

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

        assert unique_key in df.columns, f"unique_key {
            unique_key} not found in the input data"

aperturedb/CSVWriter.py:147

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

    assert source_column in df.columns, f"source_column {
        source_column} not found in the input data"

aperturedb/CSVWriter.py:152

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

    assert destination_column in df.columns, f"destination_column {
        destination_column} not found in the input data"

aperturedb/CSVWriter.py:161

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

        assert unique_key in df.columns, f"unique_key {
            unique_key} not found in the input data"

aperturedb/ParallelQuerySet.py:161

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

                    f"Set {i}: Expected {
                        expected_blobs} blobs, but filter is returning {blobs_this_set}"

aperturedb/Utils.py:195

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

                        table += f'<TR><TD BGCOLOR="{colors["connection_background"]}" COLSPAN="3" PORT="{connection}"><FONT COLOR="{
                            colors["connection_foreground"]}"><B>{connection}</B> ({matched:,})</FONT></TD></TR>'

aperturedb/Utils.py:199

• This multiline f-string expression requires Python 3.12 (PEP 701), but the project still declares support for Python >=3.10. Importing this module on Python 3.10/3.11 will fail with a SyntaxError.

                                table += f'<TR><TD BGCOLOR="{colors["connection_property_background"]}"><FONT COLOR="{colors["connection_property_foreground"]}"><B>{prop.strip()}</B></FONT></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="{colors["connection_property_background"]}"><FONT COLOR="{
                                    colors["connection_property_foreground"]}">{matched:,}</FONT></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="{colors["connection_property_background"]}"><FONT COLOR="{colors["connection_property_foreground"]}">{"Indexed" if indexed else "Unindexed"}, {typ}</FONT></TD></TR>'

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Addressed all Copilot review comments and fixed the backwards compatibility for Python >=3.10 with autopep8's multiline f-strings.

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Fixed the remaining Python 3.10 syntax errors caused by PEP 701 multi-line f-strings generated by autopep8 when running under Python 3.12. The pre-commit syntax check is now completely green.