Address minor issues identified in 10/24 Code Audit #11464

Job	Run time
(util) Check if should run	8s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (pip-default/linux)	26m 31s
Run examples (py3.9/linux)	16m 17s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (pip-complete/linux)	27m 32s
pytest (py3.9/linux/integration)	23m 29s
Run examples (py3.9/win64)	27m 9s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (pip-all/linux)	28m 46s
pytest (py3.9/win64/integration)	35m 5s
Run examples (py3.10/linux)	15m 24s
Run tests from site-packages (non-editable) installation (conda-like/linux)	27m 19s
pytest (py3.10/linux/integration)	20m 46s
pytest (py3.10/win64/integration)	41m 0s
Run examples (py3.10/win64)	31m 10s
Run examples (py3.11/linux)	14m 30s
pytest (py3.11/linux/integration)	18m 59s
Run examples (py3.11/win64)	26m 10s
pytest (py3.11/win64/integration)	34m 10s
Run examples (py3.12/linux)	14m 38s
pytest (py3.12/linux/integration)	18m 7s
Run examples (py3.12/win64)	26m 22s
pytest (py3.12/win64/integration)	35m 40s
	8h 29m 12s

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