#1061 included some things that were not working because of files being rewritten with Windows-style line endings (CRLF) rather than Unix style (LF).

GitHub has some documentation here for how to configure Git so that it knows which files it can automatically convert and which it should not: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/configuring-git-to-handle-line-endings#per-repository-settings

The task for this issue is to set this up on our repository such that Python files do not have their line endings modified.