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Preparing the development environment

Preparing the development environment - Python Tutorial

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Preparing the development environment

- While it would be possible to link the wxWidgets library into our Python programs, this would be harder than necessary as there's a better solution available called wxPython. wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python Programming Language and is designed to enable Python code to use a robust, highly functional graphical user interface simply and easily. It's implemented as a native code Python extension module for wxWidgets. I'll be showing how to install wxGlade and the libraries it needs on my Windows system. If you're running on Mac or Linux, the installation is pretty much the same and you can follow along using the equivalent bash commands. I'll check that I've got Python installed on my system by typing python -- version by typing python -- version by typing python -- version I've got Python 3.8.5 installed on my system, so now I need to install wxPython. I can do this using the PiP tool by typing pip3 install…

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