Serializing Task classes to/from dictionaries

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Types of changes

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Summary

Adds two functions serialize_task_class and unserialize_task_class to enable you to serialise task definitions to dictionaries (i.e. to be written to JSON/YAML if desired)

Checklist

• I have added tests to cover my changes (if necessary)
• I have updated documentation (if necessary)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 93.82239% with 16 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 88.74%. Comparing base (da37abb) to head (a490a01).
Report is 29 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
pydra/utils/tests/test_general.py	92.20%	4 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
pydra/compose/base/task.py	78.26%	4 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
pydra/utils/general.py	91.66%	2 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
pydra/compose/base/helpers.py	91.66%	0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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[effigies]

Makes sense. task_as_dict() is a somewhat confusing name, though...

[djarecka]

i left just a couple of questions/suggestions. But it's a great addition