[201911] Introduce sonic-py-common package #5063
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Consolidate common SONiC Python-language functionality into one shared package (sonic-py-common) and eliminate duplicate code.
The package currently includes four modules:
NOTE: This is a combination of all changes from #5003, #5049 and some changes from #5043 backported to align with the 201911 branch. As part of the 201911 port, I am not installing the Python 3 package in the base image or in the VS container, because we do not have pip3 installed, and we do not intend to migrate to Python 3 in 201911.