* feat: RANGE query parameters and unit tests

* unit test

* unit test coverage

* lint

* lint

* lint

* system test

* fix system test

* ajust init items order

* fix typos and improve docstrings

* fix: augment universe_domain handling

This PR revisits the universe resolution for the BQ client, and handles
new requirements like env-based specification and validation.

* lint

* skipif core too old

* deps

* add import

* no-cover in test helper

* lint

* ignore google.auth typing

* capitalization

* change to raise in test code

* reviewer feedback

* var fix

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* feat: support range sql

* add unit tests

* add system test

* lint and remove debug code

* lint and remove debug code

* remove added blank line

* add comment for legacy type

* fix: supplementary fix to env-based universe resolution

There's a corner case where conversion from dict to a ClientOptions
will return a universe_domain value as None that wasn't covered by
initial testing.  This updates the resolution code and adds tests to
exercise the new path.

* formatting

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* chore: use mock from unittest

* correct user_credentials_test.py

* add try except for Python 3.7

* fixes linting

* adjustments to testing suite to account for dependencies

* updates to mypy_samples.py

* linting for noxfile.py

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* testing: remove unnecessary prerelease targets

This PR does two things:
* remove unneeded prerelease-deps configs for removed and nonexisting CI targets
* fixes the continuous prerelease-deps-3.12 config

* fix: add google-auth as a direct dependency

* update constraints

* fix(deps): Require `google-api-core>=1.34.1, >=2.11.0`

* 🦉 Updates from OwlBot post-processor

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* fix: promote env-based universe into client option parsing

* lint

* add client test

* import

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* chore(deps): update all dependencies

* Update samples/magics/requirements-test.txt

* Update samples/notebooks/requirements.txt

* Update samples/magics/requirements.txt

update.

* Update samples/desktopapp/requirements-test.txt

* Update samples/geography/requirements-test.txt

* Update samples/notebooks/requirements-test.txt

* Update samples/snippets/requirements-test.txt

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