Fix pylint warnings

Summary

Addresses #240 (closed)
Four pylint warnings are now ignored, one probable bug fixed

Focus

Are any of the warnings now marked as false positive in fact true positives?

Test Environment

Does the pylint job in the pipeline succeed?

Check List for the Author

• All automated tests pass
• Reference related issues
• Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
• Appropriate user and developer documentation (or not necessary)
• Annotations in code (Gitlab comments)

Check List for the Reviewer

• I understand the intent of this MR
• All automated tests pass
• Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (or not necessary)
• Appropriate user and developer documentation (or not necessary)
• The test environment setup works and the intended behavior is reproducible in the test environment
• In-code documentation and comments are up-to-date.
• Check: Are there specifications? Are they satisfied?