Fixes an assert due to a unicode/bytes mismatch.

Drop old test adjustments, we only test DateTime >= 3 nowadays.

Make the condition for test_pickle_old_with_micros_as_float based on
python version for simplicity.

this is removed from python3, it was not so useful here either

redefine-in-handler does not exist on pylint 3 and was no longer emitted here
on python2.