fix(style): flake8 ignore rules & improve style

Updated flake8 ignore rules to include
W293 and W503. Improved comments for clarity
on linting behavior.

See [Action Run #17 (17516215023) > build > Lint with flake8](https://github.com/SyntaxAerror/stat-log-db/actions/runs/17516215023)

Author: bjthres1

.github/workflows/python-package.yml

@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ jobs:
         if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
     - name: Lint with flake8
       run: |
-        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
-        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --ignore=E261 --show-source --statistics
+        # stop the build if th1ere are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        # Notes:
+        #     W503: https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#should-a-line-break-before-or-after-a-binary-operator
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --ignore=E261,W293,W503 --show-source --statistics
         # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
         flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
     - name: Install stat-log-db package (dev)

stat_log_db/src/stat_log_db/db.py

@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ def drop_table(self, table_name: str, raise_if_not_exists: bool = False):
         if not isinstance(table_name, str):
             raise_auto_arg_type_error("table_name")
         if len(table_name) == 0:
-            raise ValueError(f"'table_name' argument of drop_table cannot be an empty string!")
+            raise ValueError("'table_name' argument of drop_table cannot be an empty string!")
 
         # Validate and sanitize table name
         validated_table_name = self._validate_sql_identifier(table_name, "table name")

tests/test_tools.py

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def _find_bash_executable(): # TODO: Improve this
     # Common Git Bash locations on Windows
     common_paths = [
         r"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe",
-        r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash.exe", 
+        r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash.exe",
         r"C:\Users\{}\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\bin\bash.exe".format(os.getenv("USERNAME", "")),
         r"C:\Git\bin\bash.exe",
     ]