Deferred Modernization Work
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The packaging migration (setup.py → pyproject.toml, drop six, refresh docs)
landed in commits ``7df4a94``..``HEAD``. The items below were identified
during that sweep but deliberately left out because each is large enough
to warrant its own focused PR.

Mechanical Python idiom updates
-------------------------------

Each of these is a near-mechanical refactor with a wide diff. Best done
one-at-a-time so reviewers can read each change as a single transformation.

* **Drop explicit ``object`` base class.** ``class Foo(object):`` →
  ``class Foo:``. No behavior change in Py3.
* **Modernize ``super()`` calls.** ``super(ClassName, self).method(...)`` →
  ``super().method(...)``. The arguments are required only in Py2.
* **Adopt f-strings.** ``"x={0}".format(x)`` and ``"x=%s" % x`` →
  ``f"x={x}"``. Skip for logging calls — those should keep ``%s``
  formatting so the logger can short-circuit when the level is disabled.
* **Switch typing imports to builtins.** ``List[X]`` / ``Dict[K, V]`` /
  ``Optional[X]`` → ``list[X]`` / ``dict[K, V]`` / ``X | None`` once a
  Python 3.10+ floor is acceptable (we already require 3.13, so this is
  safe today).

Lint and tooling
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* **Fix the ~23 pre-existing flake8 import-order errors.** Run
  ``tox -e lint`` to see the list. Mostly ``I100``/``I201``/``I202``
  under ``cloudbridge/providers/azure``, ``gcp``, and ``openstack``.
* **Consider replacing flake8 + flake8-import-order with ruff.** Ruff
  reads ``pyproject.toml``, runs ~100× faster, and covers import
  ordering (``I``) plus most flake8 plugins out of the box.
* **Consider adding mypy / pyright in CI.** The codebase has no type
  hints today; this would be a meaningful uplift, not a one-PR task.

Repository hygiene
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* **Untracked local-dev artifacts at the repo root** — ``azure.txt``,
  ``openstack.txt``, ``docs2/``, ``script_test.py``, ``openstack.log``.
  Each likely belongs in ``.gitignore`` or in a developer's untracked
  workspace; investigate before either committing or deleting.

Integration-test infrastructure
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* **Reap stale ``cb-*`` resources on the OpenStack DevStack target.**
  When an integration test fails partway, its cleanup sometimes
  doesn't run (e.g., cleanup itself errors), leaving orphan volumes,
  servers, floating IPs, and networks named ``cb-<role>-<uuid>`` in
  the demo project. They accumulate across CI runs and eventually
  trip the project quotas (we hit ``VolumeLimitExceeded`` once
  already). Quotas have been raised generously as a stopgap, but the
  proper fix is a janitor: a small script that runs at the start of
  each ``tox -e py3.13-openstack`` invocation (or as a host-side
  systemd timer) and deletes any ``cb-*``-named resource older than
  ~1 hour. Candidate hook: a ``setUp``-level fixture in
  ``tests/helpers/__init__.py`` that nukes leftovers before the run,
  scoped by the cloudbridge naming convention so it can't touch
  unrelated tenants.