ScriptForge - Refactor Python <=> Basic protocol

Incremental changes had made the code in
SF_PythonHelper.xba
scriptforge.py
(which manage the protocol between the Python
user scripts and the ScriptForge services
implemented in Basic) less readable and efficient.

Next features have been reviewed:
- dict instances may be passed as arguments
and returned. Conversions are done on-th-fly.
- dates may be passed as arguments
and returned. Conversions are done on-th-fly.
The lists of hardcoded methods have been removed.
- 2D arrays in standard modules may be passed
as arguments and returned. Conversions are done
on-th-fly. The lists of hardcoded methods have
been removed.
- The hardcoded list of methods requiring a post-
processing has been reduced.
- Methods in standard modules, when not returning
an array, are also executed with CallByName().
- The unused 'localProperties' attribute in Python
services has been removed.
- Flags about arrays in standard modules have been
adapted in
filesystem.Files()
filesystem.SubFolders()
session.UnoMethods()
session.UnoProperties()
string.SplitNotQuoted()
string.Wrap()
ui.Documents()
- The platform.UserData property became a usual
property.

Dictionaries are admitted as arguments and return
values. As a consquence next functions are supported
in Python as well:
session.GetPDFExportOpetions()
session.SetPDFExportOptions()
document, calc, writer.CustomProperties
document, calc, writer.DocumentProperties
These changes require an update of the help pages.

Non-regression tests were run with success. All changes
are transparent for existing scripts.

Change-Id: Iae7a1f5090c590209cd3cb2314c919c44736eba9
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155860
Reviewed-by: Jean-Pierre Ledure <jp@ledure.be>
Tested-by: Jenkins

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