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 wxPython Project Phoenix
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 Welcome to wxPython's Project Phoenix! This project is a new implementation
 of wxPython focused on improving speed, maintainability and extensibility.
 Just like "Classic" wxPython it wraps the wxWidgets C++ toolkit and provides