contrib: refactor: replace hex_switchEndian in linearize scripts

Switching the endianness of a hex string `str` can simply be
achieved by `bytes.fromhex(str)[::-1].hex()`, i.e. we can use
that and remove those helper methods.

contrib/linearize/linearize-data.py

@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@ from collections import namedtuple
 
 settings = {}
 
-def hex_switchEndian(s):
-    """ Switches the endianness of a hex string (in pairs of hex chars) """
-    pairList = [s[i:i+2].encode() for i in range(0, len(s), 2)]
-    return b''.join(pairList[::-1]).decode()
-
 def calc_hash_str(blk_hdr):
     blk_hdr_hash = hashlib.sha256(hashlib.sha256(blk_hdr).digest()).digest()
     return blk_hdr_hash[::-1].hex()
@@ -43,7 +38,7 @@ def get_block_hashes(settings):
     for line in f:
         line = line.rstrip()
         if settings['rev_hash_bytes'] == 'true':
-            line = hex_switchEndian(line)
+            line = bytes.fromhex(line)[::-1].hex()
         blkindex.append(line)
 
     print("Read " + str(len(blkindex)) + " hashes")

contrib/linearize/linearize-hashes.py

@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ import os.path
 
 settings = {}
 
-def hex_switchEndian(s):
-    """ Switches the endianness of a hex string (in pairs of hex chars) """
-    pairList = [s[i:i+2].encode() for i in range(0, len(s), 2)]
-    return b''.join(pairList[::-1]).decode()
-
 class BitcoinRPC:
     def __init__(self, host, port, username, password):
         authpair = "%s:%s" % (username, password)
@@ -85,7 +80,7 @@ def get_block_hashes(settings, max_blocks_per_call=10000):
                 sys.exit(1)
             assert(resp_obj['id'] == x) # assume replies are in-sequence
             if settings['rev_hash_bytes'] == 'true':
-                resp_obj['result'] = hex_switchEndian(resp_obj['result'])
+                resp_obj['result'] = bytes.fromhex(resp_obj['result'])[::-1].hex()
             print(resp_obj['result'])
 
         height += num_blocks