Updating this branch to fix the issue concerning Python version compatability

Changed the return of the function _get_orientations from tuple[float,float] to Tuple[float,float]. I tried using List but this did not accept multiple arguments, therefore I imported Tuple alongside List from the typing module.

requested review from @erigler

assigned to @swilbur

Approved.

Quick summary, for future reference: the Tuple, List, etc. classes found in the module typing can also be specified as simply tuple, list, etc. in Python >= 3.9 (with no import needed), which is why things passed in local and Gitlab pipeline testing (those use Python 3.10 or higher). Our deployed production environments are not 100% containerized though, and were running 3.8, so the processing pipeline broke with the previous MR.

If you are reading this in the future, you will wonder why this would ever have happened because we will undoubtedly have containerized everything by then. ;-)

approved this merge request

resolved all threads

mentioned in commit 9c400be1

merged