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Track Olympic Medals with PySimpleGUI! 🥇🥳

Track Olympic Medals with PySimpleGUI! 🥇🥳

With the Olympics in Paris trending right now, let’s jump on the bandwagon and create a fun and interactive GUI app that lets users choose their favorite sports from a drop-down list and displays the gold medalists for the past three Olympics.

This tutorial will make the learning process enjoyable and engaging!

Step 1: Set Up Your Environment

Before we start, make sure you have PySimpleGUI installed. You can install it using pip if you haven't already:

pip install pysimplegui

Step 2: Import the Necessary Libraries

Let's start by importing the required libraries.

import PySimpleGUI as sg

Step 3: Create the GUI Layout

We’ll create a simple layout with a drop-down menu for selecting a sport and a text element to display the results.

sports = ['Athletics', 'Swimming', 'Gymnastics', 'Cycling', 'Rowing', 'Boxing', 'Judo', 'Wrestling', 'Basketball', 'Soccer']

layout = [

[sg.Text('Select Your Favorite Sport:')],

[sg.Combo(sports, key='-SPORT-', readonly=True)],

[sg.Button('Show Gold Medalists')],

[sg.Text('Gold Medalists:', size=(40, 5), key='-RESULT-')]

]

window = sg.Window('Olympics Medal Tracker', layout)

Step 4: Define the Medalists Data

For simplicity, we’ll use a dictionary to store the gold medalists for each sport for the past three Olympics.

medalists = {

'Athletics': ['Usain Bolt (2012)', 'Mo Farah (2016)', 'Eliud Kipchoge (2020)'],

'Swimming': ['Michael Phelps (2012)', 'Katie Ledecky (2016)', 'Caeleb Dressel (2020)'],

'Gymnastics': ['Gabby Douglas (2012)', 'Simone Biles (2016)', 'Sunisa Lee (2020)'],

'Cycling': ['Bradley Wiggins (2012)', 'Chris Froome (2016)', 'Richard Carapaz (2020)'],

'Rowing': ['Katherine Grainger (2012)', 'Helen Glover (2016)', 'Stefanos Ntouskos (2020)'],

'Boxing': ['Anthony Joshua (2012)', 'Claressa Shields (2016)', 'Arlen López (2020)'],

'Judo': ['Kayla Harrison (2012)', 'Majlinda Kelmendi (2016)', 'Shohei Ono (2020)'],

'Wrestling': ['Jordan Burroughs (2012)', 'Helen Maroulis (2016)', 'Gable Steveson (2020)'],

'Basketball': ['LeBron James (2012)', 'Kevin Durant (2016)', 'Kevin Durant (2020)'],

'Soccer': ['Neymar (2012)', 'Neymar (2016)', 'Malcolm (2020)']

}

Layout with Text, Dropdown List and Buttons

Step 5: Add Event Handling

We’ll add an event loop to handle user interactions. When the user selects a sport and clicks the button, the app will display the corresponding gold medalists.

while True:

event, values = window.read()

if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:

break

if event == 'Show Gold Medalists':

sport = values['-SPORT-']

if sport:

results = '\n'.join(medalists[sport])

window['-RESULT-'].update(f'Gold Medalists:\n{results}')

else:

window['-RESULT-'].update('Please select a sport.')

window.close()

Step 6: Run the App

Put everything together and run your app. Here’s the complete code: