Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#32286: test: Handle empty string returned by CLI as None in RPC tests

a4041c77f0 test: Handle empty string returned by CLI as None in RPC tests (Brandon Odiwuor)

Pull request description:

  Partially Fixes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/32264

  Some tests are failing when `bitcoin-cli` returns an empty string. This change treats an empty response as `None`. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/32264#issuecomment-2807616694

  This fixes the error for:
  - feature_bip68_sequence.py
  - feature_nulldummy.py
  - feature_signet.py
  - mining_mainnet.py
  - rpc_scanblocks.py
  - rpc_scantxoutset.py
  - wallet_descriptor.py --descriptors

ACKs for top commit:
  maflcko:
    lgtm ACK a4041c77f0
  achow101:
    ACK a4041c77f0
  pablomartin4btc:
    ACK a4041c77f0
  mzumsande:
    ACK a4041c77f0

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test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py

@@ -919,6 +919,8 @@ class TestNodeCLI():
             # Ignore cli_stdout, raise with cli_stderr
             raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(returncode, p_args, output=cli_stderr)
         try:
+            if not cli_stdout.strip():
+                return None
             return json.loads(cli_stdout, parse_float=decimal.Decimal)
         except (json.JSONDecodeError, decimal.InvalidOperation):
             return cli_stdout.rstrip("\n")