…a decorator to other functions. Also added associated changes to tests and README

…s setup

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According to the review comment, make the pip installs as poetry installs

Bumps [jupyterlab](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab) from 3.6.7 to 3.6.8.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/compare/@jupyterlab/[email protected]...@jupyterlab/[email protected])

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: jupyterlab
  dependency-type: direct:development
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Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <[email protected]>

- Update deps
- Update Ruff
- Corresponding updates of pyproject
- Slightly update Makefile
- Drop Support of Spark2
- Drop Support of Spark 3.1-3.2
- Minimal python is 3.10 from now
- Apply new ruff rules
- Apply ruff linter

 On branch 202-drop-pyspark2
 Changes to be committed:
	modified:   .github/workflows/ci.yml
	modified:   Makefile
	modified:   poetry.lock
	modified:   pyproject.toml
	modified:   quinn/append_if_schema_identical.py
	modified:   quinn/dataframe_helpers.py
	modified:   quinn/keyword_finder.py
	modified:   quinn/math.py
	modified:   quinn/schema_helpers.py
	modified:   quinn/split_columns.py
	modified:   quinn/transformations.py

Related to mrpowers-io#237

Remove deprecated extension functions from the codebase
* Delete `quinn/extensions/dataframe_ext.py` and `quinn/extensions/spark_session_ext.py`
* Remove import statements for `dataframe_ext` and `spark_session_ext` in `quinn/extensions/__init__.py`
* Remove per-file ignores for `quinn/extensions/dataframe_ext.py` and `quinn/extensions/__init__.py` in `pyproject.toml`
* Delete test files `tests/extensions/test_dataframe_ext.py` and `tests/extensions/test_spark_session_ext.py`

* Create the `extensions/` directory.
* Create the `__init__.py` file within it with the license header.
* Create the `spark_session_ext.py` file within the extensions directory
* Update the doc-string in create_df to align with the parameter list.
* Format modified files & lint the code using ruff (successful)

As a matter of fact, a create_df function already exists under the
dataframe_helpers.py Following are the changes introduced by this commit.
* Update `dataframe_helpers.py` by updating the doc-string in the create_df function.
* Remove quinn/extensions/ directory along with the two `.py` files involved.
* Remove the ruff check from the pyproject.toml.
* Finally, format the dataframe_helpers.py with ruff

enable UP007

* Remove the test_spark_connect.py file as it is not relevant anymore.
* Update the Makefile to remove spark-connect test
* Hardcode the hadoop version to 3 as 2 is EOL.

apply hotfix

update lock file

update makefile

add make command for ruff