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Programming Python, 3rd Edition
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Programming Python, 3rd Edition

by Mark Lutz
August 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1600 pages
51h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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PyCalc: A Calculator Program/Object

To wrap up this chapter, I’m going to show you a practical application for some of the parsing technology introduced in the preceding section. This section presents PyCalc, a Python calculator program with a graphical interface similar to the calculator programs available on most window systems. But like most of the GUI examples in this book, PyCalc offers a few advantages over existing calculators. Because PyCalc is written in Python, it is both easily customized and widely portable across window platforms. And because it is implemented with classes, it is both a standalone program and a reusable object library.

A Simple Calculator GUI

Before I show you how to write a full-blown calculator, though, the module shown in Example 21-13 starts this discussion in simpler terms. It implements a limited calculator GUI, whose buttons just add text to the input field at the top in order to compose a Python expression string. Fetching and running the string all at once produces results. Figure 21-8 shows the window this module makes when run as a top-level script.

The calc0 script in action on Windows (result=160.283)

Figure 21-8. The calc0 script in action on Windows (result=160.283)

Example 21-13. PP3E\Lang\Calculator\calc0.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python # a simple calculator GUI: expressions run all at once with eval/exec from Tkinter import * from PP3E.Dbase.TableBrowser.guitools import frame, button, entry class ...
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