Ticket8445 handle removal of defaults from config

[LowriJenkins]

Description of work

Add a check when adding macros to the blockserver configs to not create them if the gui passes them with the useDefault value set to true. And run ruff format and check.

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[Tom-Willemsen]

Unfortunately, this branch completely crashes my local blockserver with:

Exception in thread Thread-11 (consume_write_queue):
[2026-02-12 17:33:18.604585] MINOR: ComponentSwitcher: component_switcher config file at C:/Instrument/Settings/config/NDW2922/configurations\ComponentSwitcher\component_switcher.json does not exist - assuming empty config
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Instrument\Apps\Python3\Lib\threading.py", line 1043, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
    ~~~~~~~~^^
  File "C:\Instrument\Apps\Python3\Lib\threading.py", line 994, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Instrument\Apps\EPICS\ISIS\inst_servers\master\\block_server.py", line 737, in consume_write_queue
    self.update_server_status(state)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Instrument\Apps\EPICS\ISIS\inst_servers\master\\block_server.py", line 678, in update_server_status
    raise RuntimeError
RuntimeError
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Instrument\Apps\Python3\Lib\site-packages\pcaspy\driver.py", line 631, in getValue
    newValue = driver.read(self.info.reason)
  File "C:\Instrument\Apps\EPICS\ISIS\inst_servers\master\\block_server.py", line 288, in read
    raise RuntimeError
RuntimeError
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Instrument\Apps\Python3\Lib\site-packages\pcaspy\cas.py", line 582, in read
    return _cas.PV_read(self, ctx, protoIn)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
RuntimeError: SWIG director method error. Exception Calling Python Code
RuntimeError: SWIG director method error. Exception Calling Python Code

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

SystemError: <function SimplePV.interestDelete at 0x000001A39A011BC0> returned a result with an exception set

This crash does not occur on the master branch.

[LowriJenkins]

doing some more bugfixing for some errors introduced during pyright/ruff have led to another file needing pyright checking, but once thats done this should be ready to go