Skip running the tests on Windows Debug. #292
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When we run CI on Windows Debug, Python expects to be able to find compiled libraries with an extra _d in their filename that contains the debugging ABI.
However, we don't currently have a debug library available for PyQt5, and thus when running under Windows Debug, the tests cannot succeed. While we could build a debug library for PyQt5, that is actually a massive undertaking. Instead, just skip these tests when we are on Windows Debug. While that loses us a bit of coverage, it won't matter much; we are still testing this on Windows (Release) and on Linux.
The way in which this patch determines that this is a Windows Debug interpreter is a little chintzy. It just uses the fact that the binary is named python_d.exe to discover that. I couldn't find another way to tell if this was a debug interpreter, but I am open to other ideas.