Upgrade web3 and eth_abi

[akremstudy]

There is a bug when encoding empty string using current eth_abi library, adds extra zeros to encoding, the bug is addressed when trying newer eth_abi version. But upgrading eth_abi seems to require upgrading web3 also.

[akremstudy]

There is a bug when encoding empty string using current eth_abi library, adds extra zeros to encoding, the bug is addressed when trying newer eth_abi version. But upgrading eth_abi seems to require upgrading web3 also.

update:
Actually I think just updating the code (everywhere to be safe) to use from eth_abi import encode instead of from eth_abi import encode_abi should do the trick instead of updating the package version; encode is available in the currently used version and encode_abi is being deprecated in favor of encode. same for switching decode_abi for decode.

ps: updating packages causes version conflicts between them that seem to resolve after updating pip but not sure about this