Build a Calculator App in Python with PyQt

Esteban Thilliez
Tech Tavern
Published in
5 min readOct 26, 2022

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PyQt Calculator App

This story follows the User Interfaces series. You can find the other related stories here:

To have a good understanding of this story, you should know PyQt and the MVC pattern. If you know either of these, you can find stories about them in the story just above.

Also, you can find the code used in this story in my GitHub, here.

After teaching you how to build user interfaces using PyQt and Tkinter, as well as the MVC pattern, it’s time to practice!

We’ll build a tiny calculator app with just some basic functionalities. We’ll try to make it as simple as possible.

QtDesigner

The first step when building user interfaces is to have an idea of how will look our application. As we’ve seen through the series, an easy way to do this is to use QtDesigner.

So let’s install QtDesigner in our project, and open it (if you don’t know how to do this, check this story). We can then create a main window.

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Esteban Thilliez
Tech Tavern

I’m Esteban, and I enjoy writing about programming, trading, productivity, knowledge management, books, etc! esteban-thilliez.com / contact@esteban-thilliez.com