[CI/CD failing] Ruff version deprecated.

[dabhicusp]

In the code, we did not specify the Ruff version, so it pick the latest version (i.e. 0.0.288 for now) while running ci/cd pipeline. Unfortunately, this latest version deprecated this method type(value) which is used for checking variable types. This method is widely used in our codebase.

To resolve this issue, we have two options:

1. Fix Ruff Version:
   We can fix the Ruff version in our code to a version(0.0.280) that still supports the type(value) method. This would maintain our existing code logic without changes.
2. Replace type(value) with isinstance():
   We can modify our code to use the isinstance() method for checking variable types.

Please share your thoughts on which approach we should take. @alxmrs

[alxmrs]

I recommend doing (1) for now, and then creating an issue to follow up to implement (2) to do later. (2) also fits our internal style standards.

[dabhicusp]

Closed this issue as this is fixed in #387.