Python provides many options for developing GUI like Kivy, PyQT, WxPython, and several others. Tkinter is the one that is shipped inbuilt with python which makes it the most commonly used out of all. Tkinter is easy, fast, and powerful.
Beginners can easily learn to create a simple calculator using this article: Python | Simple GUI calculator using Tkinter
The simple calculator created by manually adding each button and creating different functions for each unique button is a tedious task. It is not the best practice. Here we will see a dynamic calculator program that can be easily scaled. Let us create a simple and easy GUI calculator that can do basic math operations like multiplication, division, square root, addition, and subtraction, even more operations can be added, and according to it changes can be made in the function.
Step-by-step Approach:
- Creating the main window
- Creating a container containing all keys used in the calculator (Here List)
- Creating a container for all our buttons created
- Creating buttons and adding them to the button container
- Defining the function to be called when a button is pressed
- Running the main loop
Below is the implementation of the above approach:
Python3
# Import required modulesfrom tkinter import *import tkinter.font as font# Creating the main windowroot = Tk()# Assigning it the desired geometryroot.geometry("380x400")# Assigning the name of our windowroot.title("Calculator")# Assigning it the capability to # be resizable (It is default)root.resizable(0, 0)# Creating a StringVar to take # the text entered in the Entry widgetinp = StringVar()myFont = font.Font(size=15)# Creating an Entry widget to get the # mathematical expression# And also to display the resultsscreen = Entry(root, text=inp, width=30, justify='right', font=(10), bd=4)# We will use a grid like structurescreen.grid(row=0, columnspan=4, padx=15, pady=15, ipady=5)# Key matrix contains all the required the keyskey_matrix = [["c", u"\u221A", "/", "<-"], ["7", "8", "9", "*"], ["4", "5", "6", "-"], ["1", "2", "3", "+"], ["!", 0, ".", "="]]# Creating a dictionary for the buttonsbtn_dict = {}# Variable to store our resultsans_to_print = 0# Defining the function for calculationdef Calculate(event): # getting the name of the button clicked button = event.widget.cget("text") # Referring the global values global key_matrix, inp, ans_to_print try: # Event containing a sqrt operation if button == u"\u221A": ans = float(inp.get())**(0.5) ans_to_print = str(ans) inp.set(str(ans)) elif button == "c": # Clear Button inp.set("") elif button == "!": # Factorial def fact(n): return 1 if n == 0 else n*fact(n-1) inp.set(str(fact(int(inp.get())))) elif button == "<-": # Backspace inp.set(inp.get()[:len(inp.get())-1]) elif button == "=": # Showing The Results # Calculating the mathematical exp. using eval ans_to_print = str(eval(inp.get())) inp.set(ans_to_print) # You may add many more operations else: # Displaying the digit pressed on screen inp.set(inp.get()+str(button)) except: # In case invalid syntax given in expression inp.set("Wrong Operation") # Creating the buttons using for loop# Number of rows containing buttonsfor i in range(len(key_matrix)): # Number of columns for j in range(len(key_matrix[i])): # Creating and Adding the buttons to dictionary btn_dict["btn_"+str(key_matrix[i][j])] = Button( root, bd=1, text=str(key_matrix[i][j]), font=myFont) # Positioning buttons btn_dict["btn_"+str(key_matrix[i][j])].grid( row=i+1, column=j, padx=5, pady=5, ipadx=5, ipady=5) # Assigning an action to the buttons btn_dict["btn_"+str(key_matrix[i][j])].bind('<Button-1>', Calculate)# Running the main looproot.mainloop() |
Output:
Output Example 2
