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-easygui is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming
-in Python.
+easygui is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming in Python.
Experienced Pythonistas need support for quick and dirty GUI features.
New Python programmers need GUI capabilities that don't require any
knowledge of Tkinter, frames, widgets, callbacks or lambda. This is
-what easygui provides. Using it, all GUI interactions are invoked
+what easygui provides. Using it, all GUI interactions are invoked
by simple function calls.
easygui is different from other GUIs in that it is NOT event-driven.
It allows you to program in a traditional linear fashion, and to put up
-dialogs for simple input and output when you need to. If you have not yet
-learned the event-driven paradigm for GUI programming, easygui will
-allow you to be productive with very basic tasks immediately. Later, if you
+dialogs for simple input and output when you need to do so. If you have
+not yet learned the event-driven paradigm for GUI programming, easygui will
+allow you to be productive with very basic tasks immediately. If you later
wish to make the transition to an event-driven GUI paradigm, you can move
to an event-driven style with a more powerful GUI package such as anygui,
-PythonCard, Tkinter, wxPython, etc.
-easygui is there just to do very basic stuff. More elaborate stuff should
-be done with more powerful tools. easygui is built on top of Tkinter.
-
-A tutorial and more complete documentation can be found on easygui homepage.
-
-It can display all image-file formats supported by Python Imaging Library.
+PythonCard, Tkinter, wxPython, etcetera.