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Imperial Measurement Converter App Using A Python GUI

 Imperial measurement system converter app

 I decided to spend an evening making a unit converter app without using an api to do the heavy lifting for me *and* with a python based gui because I haven't really made anything with one of them before and this is the result:

👍👍👍

 
 


 I installed Tinkter to get the GUI (graphical user interface)



This is the GUI it produces when it's running.  
 

The next job is to tidy up the code, it needs it.  Then I want to add some more functionality to it.  I can add volume conversion or weight.  I've always wanted to do some research into old money so I can add that to the app.

After I've added a bit more functioLink to the app on githubnality to it I'll find a way to host it on the public internet.  

 

This is my advice to any other programmers out there:  Once you've got something working make the most of it because it's easier to add things onto something that's already working than starting a whole new thing from scratch.  


Imperial measurement converter code on github


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