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Creating a GUI with Dropdown Menus

Discover how to create a graphical user interface in Python with dropdown menus for unit conversions. This lesson teaches you to list available pressure units, implement OptionMenus for user selection, and leverage the Pint library for accurate and secure conversions within a Tkinter app.

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Now you have a converter handy for converting MPa to psi. What if you want to convert between other units of pressure? Instead of hard-coding MPa and psi, you want to be able to give the user an OptionMenu of all of the available pressures from the Pint library. You will create a list of all available pressure units, then make two OptionMenus to let the user pick which pressures to convert between. The GUI will now look like this:

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Row 1 Label saying “Converter”
Row 2 Label saying “Convert” Entry field for inputting a str OptionMenu with all pressures
Row 3 Label saying “into”
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