Merge #14884: Travis: enforce Python 3.4 support through linter

31926ee8cfc73501524dfa0fef2ccbaa786d6a00 [test] functional framework: add CScript hex() for Python 3.4 (Sjors Provoost)
74ce32683199b987e45eb16f0320ae392ff10edc [test] Travis: enforce Python 3.4 support in functional tests (Sjors Provoost)

Pull request description:

  The minimum supported version of Python is 3.4 according to [dependencies.md](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/dependencies.md). This PR makes the Travis linter use this version in order to catch accidental use of modern syntax.

Tree-SHA512: 71b2c102be72b135a8ba049378d66875760f20a04a657102a399240c5c2b2ddbdfa7d5ab4c0c0242ecc3259e0ee8eb2273f331bc5eb824f4ae4c3cc58aea37ac

.python-version

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.4.9

.travis.yml

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ after_success:
       sudo: false
       cache: false
       language: python
-      python: '3.6'
+      python: '3.4' # Oldest supported version according to doc/dependencies.md
       install:
         - set -o errexit; source .travis/lint_04_install.sh
       before_script:

test/functional/test_framework/script.py

@@ -430,6 +430,10 @@ class CScript(bytes):
         # join makes no sense for a CScript()
         raise NotImplementedError
 
+    # Python 3.4 compatibility
+    def hex(self):
+        return hexlify(self).decode('ascii')
+
     def __new__(cls, value=b''):
         if isinstance(value, bytes) or isinstance(value, bytearray):
             return super(CScript, cls).__new__(cls, value)

test/lint/check-doc.py

@@ -26,8 +26,12 @@ SET_DOC_OPTIONAL = set(['-rpcssl', '-benchmark', '-h', '-help', '-socks', '-tor'
 
 
 def main():
-    used = check_output(CMD_GREP_ARGS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, encoding='utf8')
-    docd = check_output(CMD_GREP_DOCS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, encoding='utf8')
+    if sys.version_info >= (3, 6):
+        used = check_output(CMD_GREP_ARGS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, encoding='utf8')
+        docd = check_output(CMD_GREP_DOCS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, encoding='utf8')
+    else:
+        used = check_output(CMD_GREP_ARGS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True) # encoding='utf8'
+        docd = check_output(CMD_GREP_DOCS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True) # encoding='utf8'
 
     args_used = set(re.findall(re.compile(REGEX_ARG), used))
     args_docd = set(re.findall(re.compile(REGEX_DOC), docd)).union(SET_DOC_OPTIONAL)