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A good place to start exploring the wxPython GUI toolkit is by going to the following URL: http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/gallery.html

This web page displays many wxPython widgets and, by clicking on any of them, we are taken to their documentation, which is a very helpful feature to quickly learn about a wxPython control:

The following screenshot shows the documentation for a wxPython button widget:

We can very quickly create a working window that comes with a title, a menu bar, and also a status bar. This status bar ...

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