Address CI failures described in #1514 (#1515) #8934

Job	Run time
Check code is formatted (Black)	19s
Code linting (pylint)	4m 29s
macOS setup (EXPERIMENTAL) (3.9)	1h 18m 25s
Test notebooks (py3.9/linux)	5m 13s
Tests (py3.9/linux)	56m 11s
Test notebooks (py3.9/win64)	12m 21s
Tests (py3.9/win64)	1h 15m 40s
Test notebooks (py3.11/linux)	5m 15s
pytest (user mode) (py3.9/linux)	36m 51s
Tests (py3.10/linux)	48m 14s
Test notebooks (py3.11/win64)	10m 6s
pytest (user mode) (py3.9/win64)	40m 17s
Tests (py3.10/win64)	1h 30m 5s
pytest (user mode) (py3.11/linux)	27m 24s
Tests (py3.11/linux)	48m 25s
pytest (user mode) (py3.11/win64)	42m 36s
Tests (py3.11/win64)	1h 31m 19s
Upload coverage report (Codecov)	9s
	11h 13m 19s

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