update CI workflows: update/fix codecheck; remove Ubuntu 18.04 (#1167)

1. update/fix codecheck

Run workflow with pylint 2.15.7

Add a  bunch of fiddly and mostly cosmetic changes to
make pylint (and make codecheck) happy.

Also try to run pyflakes3 vs. pyflakes

2. remove Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 has been removed from github actions, so
we remove it from our workflow as well

Makefile

@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ clean:
 codecheck: $(PYSRC)
 	-echo "Running code check"
 	util/versioncheck.py
-	pyflakes $(PYSRC)
+	pyflakes3 $(PYSRC) || pyflakes $(PYSRC)
 	pylint --rcfile=.pylint $(PYSRC)
 #	Exclude miniedit from pep8 checking for now
 	pep8 --repeat --ignore=$(P8IGN) `ls $(PYSRC) | grep -v miniedit.py`
 
 errcheck: $(PYSRC)
 	-echo "Running check for errors only"
-	pyflakes $(PYSRC)
+	pyflakes3 $(PYSRC) || pyflakes $(PYSRC)
 	pylint -E --rcfile=.pylint $(PYSRC)
 
 test: $(MININET) $(TEST)