Yes, wxPython has a a method called GIFAnimationCtrl in the module wx.animate that will do just that. I think it is relatively new, available in the latest version 2.6 of wxPython. It works well and I posted a small code snippet at:
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet435.html
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