Create an Encyclopaedia¶

Fundamentally, an Encyclopaedia is built using two python classes:

• Encyclopaedia(): The top level container.

• EncEntry(): A container for a single encyclopaedia entry.

The Encyclopaedia object¶

Encyclopaedia() manages, among other things, the sorting and filtering of all your entries.

init python:
    your_new_encyclopaedia = Encyclopaedia()

The EncEntry object¶

Once you have an Encyclopaedia, EncEntry objects need to be created. These are where the information for each entry goes. The minimum arguments to create an EncEntry are:

• parent: The container for the entry. Can be an Encyclopaedia or another EncEntry (for sub-pages)

• name: The name for the entry. Doesn’t need to be unique.

• text: The text for the entry. Can be a string or list of strings.

init python:
    your_new_encyclopaedia = Encyclopaedia()

    about_zeus = EncEntry(
        parent=your_new_encyclopaedia,
        name="Zeus",
        text=enc_utils.text_block("""\
            Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.
            His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.
            His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perun, Thor, and Odin.
        """)
    )