Primarily I'd like to remove this because it is very imprecise, due to
Python's dynamic nature, giving it a large list of false positives that
need to be listed as exceptions. See for example #16906.
It's also a frequent source of complaints. I'm doubtful of the
usefulness of checking for dead code in a linter in the first place.
Having some dead code in the test framework for a while is not a
disaster.
Introduces `TestNode.profile_with_perf()` context manager which
samples node execution to produce profiling data.
Also introduces a test framework flag, `--perf`, which will run
perf on all nodes for the duration of a given test.
59e387705c test: add invalid tx templates for use in functional tests (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
This change adds a list of `CTransaction`-generating templates which each correspond to a specific type of invalid transaction. We then use this list to test for a wider variety of invalid tx types in `p2p_invalid_tx.py` and `feature_block.py`.
Consolidating all invalid tx types will allow us to more easily cover all tx reject cases from a variety of tests without repeating ourselves. Validation logic doesn't differ much between mempool and block acceptance, but there *is* a difference and we should be sure we're testing both comprehensively.
Right now, I've only added templates covering the tx reject types listed below but if this approach seems worthwhile I will expand the list to be fully comprehensive.
```
bad-txns-in-belowout
bad-txns-inputs-duplicate
bad-txns-too-many-sigops
bad-txns-vin-empty
bad-txns-vout-empty
bad-txns-vout-negative
```
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