Instead of using encode/decode is it better to use str2bytes and
bytes2str, so that the types in Python 2 are unchanged. More important,
this prevents the double encoding of bytes, which causes problems
when they have non-ASCII data encoded.

Errors were being raised for returning `None` in Python 2
(due to a missing else branch) and for re-encoding bytes
in Python 2.

I changed the code to use str2bytes in the cases where bytes
are expected.

with ROUND_DOWN, we have a different behaviour between py2/py3, that caused failures in
erp5_simplified_invoicing:testTradeModelLine.

Here is what happened in _round(1.9999999999999998) in
bt5/erp5_simulation/DocumentTemplateItem/portal_components/document.erp5.FloatEquivalenceTester.py

* py2
decimal.Decimal(str(1.9999999999999998)).quantize(decimal.Decimal('0.000001'), 'ROUND_DOWN')
=> Decimal('2.000000')
(because str(1.9999999999999998) is '2.0')

* py3
decimal.Decimal(str(1.9999999999999998)).quantize(decimal.Decimal('0.000001'), 'ROUND_DOWN')
=> Decimal('1.999999')
(because str(1.9999999999999998) is '1.9999999999999998')

But ROUND_DOWN result of 1.9999999999999998 with 0.000001 precision should be 1.999999 thus py2 behaviour is wrong.

On python2, attributes of new style classes (classes, not instances)
were not properly validated. On python3, attributes of classes were not.

In current versions, sorted is allowed in RestrictedPython.

Also, our implementation of sorted was not correct with generators,
it consumed the generator by iterating on it a first time to check the
values.

Run zope with ERP5_COMPONENT_OVERRIDE_PATH set to a : separated list of
path containing components files to load components from files instead
of portal_components.

This can be used to repair zope after a bad edit of component.

for pylint 3 to understand erp5 dynamic modules

patches/python: fix linecache for python scripts on py3

If preferences are not set, this causes a non existant style to be used

On recent pylint, this is flagged as unnecessary-pass

Also update the link that was pointing to python2 doc

We want these columns to be "binary" so that mariadbd compares them
without any collation, but we don't want to use binary type, because on
python 3 the brain attributes are bytes (user ids are strings everywhere
else).

This also normalize the same columns present in worklist cache table.

I don't know a PYTHONHASHSEED to see the problem on python2, but on
python 3 erp5_payroll_l10n_fr:testSimplifiedPayslipReport fails all the
time with this.

On python3 the percentages are sometimes printed as 6.8500000000000005%

it was using bytes, but this seems wrong now that we did 31af8997
(XMLExportImport: Base_asXML and Folder_asXML return str, not bytes.,
2024-03-07).