Some Python functional tests still use plain `assert x == y`.
The earlier commits convert the ambiguous assert patterns by hand, so this commit can rewrite the remaining safe cases mechanically.
The verify script excludes `wallet_bumpfee.py`, `test_framework/netutil.py`, and `test_framework/authproxy.py`, which still contain assert forms that the plain line-based substitution would misidentify.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
perl -pi -e 's/^(\s*)assert (.+?) == ([^,#]+?)$/\1assert_equal(\2, \3)/' $(git ls-files -- 'test/functional' \
':(exclude)test/functional/wallet_bumpfee.py' ':(exclude)test/functional/test_framework/netutil.py' ':(exclude)test/functional/test_framework/authproxy.py')
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
The later scripted diff only rewrites call sites.
Add `assert_equal` imports in the remaining files that still need them so the mechanical replacement can apply cleanly.
Also, support serialization of lists of byte-strings as PSBTMap values,
which will be simply concatenated without any compact-size prefixes
(neither for the individual items nor for the size of the list).