Improve runtime safety when building lookup tables #1230

Job	Run time
Build source distribution	25s
Build and test macOS wheels (1.62.1, macos-14)	9m 14s
Build and test Linux wheels	28m 29s
Build and test macOS wheels (1.62.1, macos-13)	19m 49s
Build package from source dist (3.9)	2m 59s
Build package from source dist (3.10)	3m 13s
Build package from source dist (3.11)	4m 32s
Build package from source dist (3.12)	7m 39s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.11, macos-14)	16s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.11, macos-13)	40s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.12, macos-14)	19s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.12, macos-13)	26s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.8)	13s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.9)	32s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.10)	16s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.11)	23s
Install the wheel on github runner (3.12)	16s
Upload to PyPI	17s
	1h 19m 58s

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