Skip is_closing() check when not available.

bitcoin#13715 introduced a new check
for _transport.is_closing() in mininode's P2PConnection's.  This function
is only available from Python 3.4.4, though, while Bitcoin is supposed
to support all Python 3.4 versions.

In this change, we make the check conditional on is_closing() being
available.  If it is not, then we revert to the behaviour before the
check was introduced; this means that
bitcoin#13579 is not fixed for old
systems, but at least the tests work as they used to do before.

This includes a small refactoring from a one-line lambda to an
inline function, because this makes the code easier to read with more
and more conditions being added.

Fixes bitcoin#13745.

test/functional/test_framework/mininode.py

@@ -181,7 +181,17 @@ def send_message(self, message):
             raise IOError('Not connected')
         self._log_message("send", message)
         tmsg = self._build_message(message)
-        NetworkThread.network_event_loop.call_soon_threadsafe(lambda: self._transport and not self._transport.is_closing() and self._transport.write(tmsg))
+
+        def maybe_write():
+            if not self._transport:
+                return
+            # Python <3.4.4 does not have is_closing, so we have to check for
+            # its existence explicitly as long as Bitcoin Core supports all
+            # Python 3.4 versions.
+            if hasattr(self._transport, 'is_closing') and self._transport.is_closing():
+                return
+            self._transport.write(tmsg)
+        NetworkThread.network_event_loop.call_soon_threadsafe(maybe_write)
 
     # Class utility methods