Python Made Easy

Simple Calculator Project using Tkinter

Using the Tkinter module and some of the tools we learned about in the previous section, we are going to create a simple calculator app.

Here we have a text field at the top to display the digits and calculations and a grid of buttons below.

First, we need to design the interface. Here, we want to create a window that spans 4 columns and 5 rows.

We want a text entry widget at the top to display the expression we are trying to calculate. This is in row 0.

The digits and the operators will be represented by buttons and arranged in a 4x4 grid. This will start on row 1 and end on row 4. You can see this in ...