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refactor: prefix private methods with _ #216

Job	Run time
minimum dependency versions	14s
style	20s
py3.12 unit tests	12s
py3.13 unit tests	14s
doc	11s
py3.9 unit tests	14s
py3.10 unit tests	14s
py3.11 unit tests	16s
	1m 55s

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