Rewriting asciimaps to be functional

[tlimato]

What is the change?

Added 2 additional files, asciimaps_functional.py and test_asciimaps_functional.py which contain a function-based approach treating an ASCII map as a dictionary comprised of multiple keys with the respective components, rather than using a class-based approach that is used in asciimaps.py and test_asciimaps.py currently.

Additionally, the 2 implementations of the asciimaps utility in gridBlueprint.py have been changed to use the proper function call structure. Currently, the asciiMapFromGeomAndDomain() has not been validated as an appropriate unit test is not contained in test_asciimaps.py.

PyTest passes everything except for asciiMapFromGeomAndDomain()

Why is the change being made?

The problem: an asciimaps object is required to call a function within that class.

After reading the discussion for issue #436, It was deemed appropriate by my academic advisor, Dr. Andrew Kirby to refactor the asciimaps.py and its accompanying unit tests to use a function-based approach rather than the existing class-based approach. This is not a perfect submission, merely a jumping-off point to make asciimaps.py more extensible and usable for the maintainers of this project.

close #436

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• The release notes have been updated if necessary.
• The documentation is still up-to-date in the doc folder.
• The dependencies are still up-to-date in pyproject.toml.

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[john-science]

@tlimato Do you know about black and ruff?

We use them for code formatting in ARMI. We have information on using them in the docs: black / ruff

[john-science]

@tlimato It looks like your unit tests are failing with:

TypeError: asciiMapFromGeomAndDomain() missing 1 required positional argument: 'domain'[info] Failed to
extract font properties from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: In FT2Font: Can not load face
(unknown file format; error code 0x2)

You can see the test logs here.