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* raise Exception, not a string

Additional info https://peps.python.org/pep-0352/#exception-hierarchy-changes
https://docs.python.org/3.8/tutorial/errors.html#raising-exceptions

* Apply PEP8 recommendation to prefer isinstance

"Object type comparisons should always use isinstance() instead of comparing types directly"
https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/

* Remove dangerous default mutable values in arguments

https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/messages/warning/dangerous-default-value.html

* Format logging messages with fstring (not with format)

Additional info
https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/messages/warning/logging-format-interpolation.html
There are also discussions about the speed of formatting while logging or some unintended code executions
https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/2395
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54368109
but at least one format (fstring one) will be used throughout the project

* Specify utf-8 encoding for `open` explicitly

If not specified, it may be supposed differently in different environments, OSes, and Python versions. See
https://peps.python.org/pep-0597/
https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/locale.html#locale.getencoding
https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/os.html#utf8-mode
https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/messages/warning/unspecified-encoding.html

Helps also if some code from English language tasks is taken as inspiration for tasks in non-English languages.

* Use inline-ignoring comments to pass pre-commit instead of identity process

https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/3.0.1/user/ignoring-errors.html#in-line-ignoring-errors
https://www.flake8rules.com/rules/F841.html

flake8 comments are supported by ruff: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/linter/#error-suppression

* change version field formatting in metadata

* mention versioning in new task guide

* add instructions for changelog

* run linters