[VOL-2241] Python 3 refactor of pyvoltha

Majority of work was manual fixes to bytes and strings types, which are
different in py3, but same in py2. As the OMCI library does a lot of
these comparisons and scapy then renders packets, this was frequently
nontrival to debug.

Also:

- Removed grpc dep which wasn't being used, not py3 compatible
- s/Alarms/Events/ to work with protobuf changes per VOL-2224
- Automatic fixes via modernize tooling
- Removed unused OrderedWeakValueDict code
- Removed frameio send_frame specific to Darwin (MacOS), which had no
  corresponding linux code
- Use library functions for hex and unicode conversions
- Various other cleanups and fixes (EOL whitespace, etc.)

Also more (Matt):

 - handle stringify better, check if already string
 - use binary string for binary work
 - import new thread paths
 - update requirements.txt for newer libraries needed with newer python
 - return proper tuple for unpacking
 - bytes string formatting fixed
 - fix mock task unit test

Even more (Zack):

- Python 2/3 compat for _thread by using 'future'
- Bump version to 2.3.0

Change-Id: I53b596d374a944bfb80d0b112f21bcc1f8bcee6e
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fb76694..276cbf9 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.2.6-dev0
+2.3.0