Differently work around PyQt5 bug with argument types #3777
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Qt's getOpenFileUrls() and related Url-based functions are supposed to take a QUrl for the 'directory' argument (starting path), but until PyQt5 5.13.1 the argument was mis-typed as str. Fix workaround
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Qt's getOpenFileUrls() and related Url-based functions are supposed to take a QUrl for the 'directory' argument (starting path), but until PyQt5 5.13.1 the argument was mis-typed as str.
The Windows builders refuse to freeze
distutilsfor some reason, so rather than usedistutils.version.LooseVersionfor the comparison, we just resort to string compares onPyQt5.QtCore.PYQT_VERSION_STR. Python's string comparison operators typically do the right thing withm.n.o-style version numbers, so it should be fine.