Cleaning up some obsolete Python code, commenting out Python tests for CI (#542)

* Removing Python REST API and ModX source code

* commenting out python tests

Co-authored-by: Adarsh Pyarelal <adarsh@arizona.edu>

Author: Adarsh Pyarelal

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -79,7 +79,11 @@ jobs:
         pip install -e .[test]
 
         # Run the Python WM test suite
-        make test_wm
+        # The line below was commented out by Adarsh on 2022-02-09 since we
+        # don't really need to have the Python bindings used by external teams,
+        # and the Python-C++ interactions are causing problems on the Github
+        # Actions CI runner.
+        # make test_wm
 
         pwd
         echo "### Building and running Python tests"