drhwrapper 0.1.1

A Python wrapper for the Database of Religious History API

Overview

Python wrapper for the Database of Religious History (DRH) providing programmatic access to DRH data.

Install

To install drhwrapper you need a python installation on your system, running python >= 3.8. Run

pip install drhwrapper

Python API

Using drhwrapper, DRH data can be accessesd programmatically from within python. All functionality is mediated through an instance of drhwrapper.DRHwrapper, e.g.

>>> from drhwrapper import DRHwrapper
>>> drh = DRHwrapper()

Getting started

To run the demos, you will first need to install the drhwrapper package from PyPI. It is good practice to use a virtual environment to keep depencies tidy and separate from other projects

# create virtual environment
python -m venv env 

# activate virtual environment
# Windows
env\Scripts\activate
# macOS, Linux
source env/bin/activate

# install drhwrapper
pip install drhwrapper