Fix the zookeeper backend options when values are passed as strings,
a "False" string is now treated as the False boolean.

Closes-Bug: #1999174
Change-Id: I048faf06d89ebf980efe0598e647f2ec89f65ada

The test_while_is_not function relied on strings and literals to test
the 'while_is_not' function. But the while_is_not function uses the 'is'
operator to test the equivalency of 2 objects.
This triggers a bug with python 3.11 where using 'is' with literals is
not advised (it is not recommended since python 3.8 [0]).
The test now uses objects from a specific class to evaluate the
while_is_not function.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#changes-in-python-behavior

Change-Id: I38a0135aaf73e25aa20a11c0685d5c2a7b587a07

The StrictRedis class is only an alias for
Redis in >= 3.0.0

Change-Id: Ief27531f120a50805053c214cb61bb4151678d70

networkx 2.8.3 will raise errors if certain characters, such as a colon, in the node names and the string is not quoted.
This patch double quotes flow, node, and task string representations to make sure there are not issues with these characters occuring in the names.

Story: 2010083
Change-Id: Ib0941cddf14dde5d6b9f97fe0224d6e6f3975226

This library no longer supports Python 2, thus usage of six can be
removed. This also removes workaround about pickle library used in
Python 2 only.

Change-Id: I19d298cf0f402d65f0b142dea0bf35cf992332a9

The LOG.warn method is deprecated[1] and the LOG.warning method should
be used instead.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#logging.warning

Change-Id: I4321a489c56eb1aa650e776ee35d8f88d4d8910c

The mock third party library was needed for mock support in py2
runtimes. Since we now only support py36 and later, we can use the
standard lib unittest.mock module instead.

Change-Id: Ib169e3deb7ddb2bc93a206ebec4043552281aa7f