safehasattr: pass attribute name as string instead of bytes
This is a step toward replacing `util.safehasattr` usage with plain `hasattr`.
The builtin function behave poorly in Python2 but this was fixed in Python3.
These change are done one by one as they tend to have a small odd to trigger
puzzling breackage.
Ancestors of 5
4 2 0
Ancestors of 6 and 5
4 3 2 1 0
Ancestors of 5 and 4
4 2 0
Ancestors of 7, stop at 6
6
Ancestors of 7, including revs
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Ancestors of 7, 5 and 3, including revs
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Descendants of 5
7 8
Descendants of 5 and 3
6 7 8
Descendants of 5 and 4
5 7 8