further removal and refactoring of methods used within misc/utils.py

daemon/core/emane/emanemanager.py

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class EmaneManager(ConfigurableManager):
         if self.service:
             for f in self.service._readFd, self.service._writeFd, self.service._socket, self.service._socketOTA:
                 if f:
-                    utils.closeonexec(f)
+                    utils.close_onexec(f)
 
         if filename is not None:
             os.environ.pop(EmaneManager.EVENTCFGVAR)

daemon/core/emane/emanemodel.py

@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ class EmaneModel(WirelessModel):
         multiple values.
         """
         try:
-            values = utils.maketuplefromstr(value, str)
+            values = utils.make_tuple_fromstr(value, str)
         except SyntaxError:
             logger.exception("error in value string to param list")
             return None