Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/jsnow-gitlab/tags/python-pull-request' into staging

Python pull request

Fixes for the tests that broke during vacation, plus a simple syntax fix
for a python script.

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* remotes/jsnow-gitlab/tags/python-pull-request:
  simplebench: Fix Python syntax error (reported by LGTM)
  python: update type hints for mypy 0.930
  Python/aqmp: fix type definitions for mypy 0.920
  python/aqmp: use absolute import statement

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>