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<b>Kiwi</b> is a Python module for developing graphical applications.
While most free software projects that support programming of graphical
interfaces concentrate on low-level infrastructure and components, Kiwi
provides a high-level framework that helps developers organize their
code and develop applications quickly, removing the need to do a lot of
low-level work to get basic functionality implemented. The framework
allows you to easily write applications that look like this:
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