utilities/generate_api errors

[pongad]

TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found

Commenting out dump_version can temporarily fix the problem.

[sduskis]

@pongad, is this still active?

[pongad]

I honestly don't know. I have moved team and haven't used this in a while :/ It's OK to close this out for now if you'd like.

[chingor13]

We standardized using synthtool across all our languages over any preexisting scripts.