Changed assertions and fixtures

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Partially addresses https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO/issues/1228

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Replaced unittest assertions with Pytest assertions and replaced setup and teardown methods with python fixtures

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test_core.py & test_opentime.py

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