* adds new common functions for declarative intent modules
* adds Entity and EntityCollection
* adds dict_diff and dict_combine
* update for CI PEP8 compliance
* more CI PEP8 fixes
* more PEP8 CI clean up
* refactors the lambda assignments into top level classes
this is to be in compliant the PEP8 CI sanity checks
* one last pep8 ci fix
