Update requirements previously pinned for 3.9 support

[sufikaur]

Fixes

Suggested in #1727

Summary/Motivation:

Some requirements were pinned due to this project's support of python 3.9. Now that is no longer the case, we should review dependencies that were pinned to support it.

Changes proposed in this PR:

Important notes

• version of pint is kept pinned due to this issue Update Pyomo requirement to 6.8.0 release #1465
• a fix for a floating pint would be to add a minimum version of python required in the pyproject.toml. This was not done since (1) while not advised, legacy projects could require old versions of python, and (2) the error message when one installs idaes-pse in an existing environment with version of python not allowed by requires-python has an unreadable error message which doesn't point to the core problem that their version of python is out of date.

Code formatting and consistency

• Added trailing commas to dictionary and function argument lists in internal methods for improved style consistency (e.g., _pyomo_cons, _make_pyomo_model). [1] [2]

Configuration and dependency management

• Ran even prettier toml on pyproject.toml for better readability
• Updated requirements-dev.txt to use a newer version of sphinx-argparse (0.5.2), removing the constraint for Python 3.9 and aligning with current documentation needs.

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates the project’s runtime dependency specification in pyproject.toml, apparently aiming to remove a Pint requirement that was previously justified by Python 3.9 support.

Changes:

• Removes the minimum version constraint from the pint dependency (now unconstrained).

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[Copilot]

Dropping the pint >= 0.24.1 floor means any Pint version now satisfies the dependency, so installers may keep an already-installed older Pint that could be incompatible with Pyomo units usage. If the intent is only to stop carrying a Python 3.9-related constraint, consider (a) keeping a minimum Pint version that the project is tested against (even if you remove any 3.9-specific upper bound), and (b) declaring supported Python explicitly via requires-python (e.g., >=3.10) in [project] so packaging metadata matches the stated support policy.

[ksbeattie]

Option (b) here seems like a good idea...

[sufikaur]

We would prefer if pyomo could have an extra dependency like unit = pint >=.

At the moment we are not aware of any incompatibilities that affect idaes due to pint.
If we leave it floating, we rely on out CI to find incompatibilities. Hypothetically, if someone had an incompatible version already installed in a local environment, we would recommend them to update or recreate their environment as part of the troubleshooting process.

Conclusion is to leave it floating.

[blnicho]

The lower bound on the pint version is not coming from Pyomo. We include pint in our list of optional dependencies for Pyomo and leave it unpinned.

[blnicho]

This PR describes the issues we were seeing on the IDAES side that led to the pint version pin: #1465

[sufikaur]

I see. In that case I will keep the original pin. Thank you @blnicho

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✅ Project coverage is 73.84%. Comparing base (3b76abc) to head (409093f).
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[sufikaur]

I have no idea why black is acting up with the magic trailing comma issue! Still looking for root of the issue.

New test PR for black issue

[sufikaur]

Imitated when a minimum python version of 3.10 was set (intermediate step)
Black fixed trailing commas for projects that are >=3.6.

[sufikaur]

don't do this because error message is complicated and unhelpful if someone installs this in an existing env older than 3.10