refactor(python): split configuration and registration wrappers

[knoepfel]

This PR is a step toward addressing the readability-function-size clang-tidy warning.

• Code quality

  • Refactored Python configuration and registration wrappers into smaller helper functions.
  • Reduced function size to address readability-function-size warnings.
  • Added a lint suppression for the anonymous get_ffi_type function.

• Configuration wrapper

  • Extracted scalar, array, string-map, and vector-to-tuple conversions into dedicated helpers.
  • Improved cached-value handling by incrementing the reference count before returning cached objects.
  • Added UTF-8 decode failure checks for configuration keys.
  • Added the required <map> and <vector> includes.

• Registration wrapper

  • Split transform registration into helpers for function-pointer extraction, output validation, selector construction, type restrictions, and callback registration.
  • Added structured provider-registration argument parsing and validation.
  • Added managed-reference support for wrapped callables.
  • Separated scalar and collection output registration paths.

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The Python plugin centralizes configuration-to-Python conversion and refactors transform and provider registration into dedicated validation, callback, and output-registration helpers.

Python binding refactor

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration value conversion plugins/python/src/configwrap.cpp	Adds helpers for converting maps, vectors, arrays, and scalar configuration values. pcm_subscript uses these helpers and improves cached-value and UTF-8 error handling.
Transform registration flow plugins/python/src/modulewrap.cpp, plugins/python/src/dyncall.cpp	Separates Numba detection, output validation, selector construction, and callback registration. Adds a lint suppression for get_ffi_type.
Provider registration flow plugins/python/src/modulewrap.cpp	Parses and validates provider metadata, supports scalar and collection outputs, and manages wrapped-callable references during registration.

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In `@plugins/python/src/modulewrap.cpp`:
- Around line 1218-1221: Centralize construction of the Python output selector
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2-6: LGTM!

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Note that these changes affect the updates made for #817 . Fine per se, but it means that those updates can no longer be directly applied after #817 goes in, so plan for some time to update.

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[wlav]

Nothing drastic. The follow-up on #817 does have a new feature (which allowed me to write easier tests), that doesn't have a good location anymore and may require a bit more refactoring when that lands.