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Building a Basic Calculator App using Python

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Python in Plain English
3 min readFeb 11, 2023

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Introduction

Calculator apps are the bread and butter of most smartphones, and it’s not difficult to see why. They’re simple, useful, and always there when you need them. But have you ever thought about building one yourself? Well, good news — it’s not as hard as you think! In this article, we’ll show you how to build a calculator app using the Python programming language.

Step 1: Import the necessary libraries

To build a calculator app, we need to import two libraries: Tkinter and math. Tkinter is a GUI library that we will use to create our calculator app’s interface, while the math library is used to perform mathematical operations. Here’s the code to import these libraries:

import tkinter as tk
import math

Step 2: Create the main window

We will use the Tkinter library to create a window that will be our calculator app’s main interface. Here’s the code to create the window:

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Calculator")

Step 3: Create the calculator’s buttons

Now it’s time to create the buttons for our calculator. We will use the Button widget from the Tkinter library to create buttons for…

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