Improve runtime safety when building lookup tables #1218

Job	Run time
Build source distribution	26s
Build and test macOS wheels (1.62.1, macos-14)	9m 31s
Build and test macOS wheels (1.62.1, macos-13)	20m 18s
Build and test Linux wheels	28m 14s
Build package from source dist (3.9)	3m 3s
Build package from source dist (3.10)	3m 8s
Build package from source dist (3.11)	3m 8s
Build package from source dist (3.12)	3m 1s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.11, macos-14)	15s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.11, macos-13)	24s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.12, macos-14)	15s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.12, macos-13)	34s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.8)	22s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.9)	17s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.10)	16s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.11)	14s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.12)	19s
Upload to PyPI	19s
	1h 14m 4s

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