Replace eth-abi deprecated method usage with supported methods

[fselmo]

What was wrong?

closes #2725

• These changes have been made in web3.py v6 but need to be updated in v5.

How was it fixed?

• Replace deprecated eth-abi methods internally with supported methods to silence warnings.
• Had to do the same with eth-tester for non-breaking changes there since I saw the eth-tester tests with py-evm backend were still giving these warnings in one or two places. Cherry picked an earlier eth-tester branch, released v0.6.0-beta.7, and pulled that in here so now the messages should not be there even through eth-tester with py-evm backend tests.

Todo:

• Add entry to the release notes

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[pacrob]

lgtm!

[ahmetavc]

Seems like this broke some stuff in our contract calls @pacrob @fselmo

2022-12-02T11:11:03.901425909Z   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/web3/contract.py", line 970, in call
2022-12-02T11:11:03.902144034Z     return call_contract_function(
2022-12-02T11:11:03.902330841Z   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/web3/contract.py", line 1514, in call_contract_function
2022-12-02T11:11:03.903130053Z     call_transaction = prepare_transaction(
2022-12-02T11:11:03.903356580Z   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/web3/_utils/contracts.py", line 236, in prepare_transaction
2022-12-02T11:11:03.903723940Z     prepared_transaction['data'] = encode_transaction_data(
2022-12-02T11:11:03.903945134Z   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/web3/_utils/contracts.py", line 267, in encode_transaction_data
2022-12-02T11:11:03.904307120Z     return add_0x_prefix(encode_abi(web3, fn_abi, fn_arguments, fn_selector))
2022-12-02T11:11:03.904517916Z   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/web3/_utils/contracts.py", line 193, in encode_abi
2022-12-02T11:11:03.904872834Z     encoded_arguments = web3.codec.encode(
2022-12-02T11:11:03.905090463Z AttributeError: 'ABICodec' object has no attribute 'encode'

[fselmo]

@ahmetavc Ah, I think we still have too low of a lower bound for eth-abi. Thanks for flagging this. There are quite a few options here since there were some breaking changes between versions. You can update eth-abi to the stable 2.2.0 or 3.0.1 or the latest beta 4.0.0b2. I'll take care of raising the lower bound in here for web3.py. Thanks again.

[fselmo]

@ahmetavc thanks again, we already have this fix out in the latest patch release v5.31.3.