ci: fix linting and test issues (#185)

Signed-off-by: Alex Kanitz <alexander.kanitz@unibas.ch>
Co-authored-by: Alex Kanitz <alexander.kanitz@unibas.ch>

Author: Nidhi091999

.github/workflows/checks.yaml

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: "3.10"
+      - name: Pin pip version
+        run: python -m pip install --upgrade "pip<24.1"
       - name: Install requirements
         run: |
           pip install .

pylintrc

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 [MESSAGES CONTROL]
-disable=W0511,W1201,W1202,W1203
+disable=W0511,W1201,W1202,W1203,R0917