ruff --select UP007,UP045 --fix converted ~1760 sites across the
backend: `Optional[T]` → `T | None`, `Union[X, Y]` → `X | Y`. The
remaining module-level alias targets that ruff conservatively skips
(BindableFloatInput, ColorList, DeviceConfig) were converted by hand
earlier in the pass. black -formatted the result so the wider unions
fit cleanly under the 100-char line budget.
pyproject.toml now sets [tool.ruff.lint] extend-select = ["UP007",
"UP045"] so future legacy imports fire CI on every push. The
pre-commit ruff hook was bumped from v0.8.0 -> v0.15.12 to recognise
UP045 (split off from UP007 in v0.13).
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