Improved debuggability of  `verify-reviews.py`.
Improved debuggability of  `verify-reviews.py`.

Improves error handling in `shell()` and decodes what is returned
by `urllib.request.urlopen` when doing API calls.

Review: https://reviews.apache.org/r/69701/

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