Eliminate pylint warnings

[martinholmer]

Non-substantive, cosmetic changes in Python code to eliminate pylint warnings.
This work used the newest version of pylint: release 3.3.3.
The .py files in the taxcalc/validation and docs/guide directory trees were excluded from this work.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 99.96%. Comparing base (17bd940) to head (1400752).

Additional details and impacted files

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##           master    #2859      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   99.42%   99.96%   +0.53%     
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  Files          13       13              
  Lines        2625     2622       -3     
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+ Hits         2610     2621      +11     
+ Misses         15        1      -14     

Flag	Coverage Δ
unittests	99.96% <100.00%> (+0.53%)	⬆️

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Files with missing lines	Coverage Δ
taxcalc/calculator.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/consumption.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/data.py	99.25% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/decorators.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/growfactors.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/parameters.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/policy.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/records.py	100.00% <ø> (ø)
taxcalc/taxcalcio.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
taxcalc/utils.py	100.00% <100.00%> (+2.19%)	⬆️