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+Remove unused upgrade_listener function from transport upgrader
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+- Remove unused `upgrade_listener` function from `libp2p/transport/upgrader.py` (Issue 2 from #726)
+- Clean up unused imports related to the removed function
+- Improve code maintainability by removing dead code