Migrate to pyproject.toml

[jadchaar]

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Description of Changes

Python standards are moving away from setup.py to pyproject.toml. This change is also required to adopt flit for building and uploading the module distribution to PyPI.

I also added a new GitHub actions workflow for releasing to PyPI automatically on tag pushes.

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Codecov Report

All modified lines are covered by tests ✅

Comparison is base (3a6cd95) 100.00% compared to head (ddf9196) 100.00%.
Report is 1 commits behind head on master.

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