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wireproto: define and use types for wire protocol commands

Wire protocol commands have historically been declared as
2-tuples in wireproto.commands. There are some additional features I'd
like to implement that require going beyond 2-tuples. But because
the 2-tuple API (both destructuring assignment and direct assignment
into the dict) is used throughout the code base and in 3rd party
extensions, we can't do a trivial type change.

This commit creates a new "commandentry" type to represent declared
wire protocol commands. It implements __getitem__ and __iter__ so
it can quack like a 2-tuple. The @wireprotocommand decorator now
creates "commandentry" instances.

We also create a "commanddict" type to represent the dictionary of
declared wire protocol commands. It inherits from "dict" but provides
a custom __setitem__ to coerce passed 2-tuples to "commandentry"
instances. wireproto.commands is now an instance of this type.

Various callers in core rely on the new functionality. And tests
pass. So I'm reasonably confident things will "just work" in 3rd
party extensions as well.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1998

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>