A good friend was translating Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I wrote this small Python program to help him compile an index of names. With two basic commands, this program allows the user to automatically add and remove names from a generated index.txt file.

Unfortunately, due to copyright I cannot include an example of the text from which the index is created.

But feel free to adapt this code for your own purposes!

Names can be searched from the command line.

For example, to add all instances of 'Jove' to the index, type:

python3 MetIndex.py Jove

To remove the entry for 'Jove' from the index:

python3 MetIndex.py -rm Jove # removes the entry for 'Jove' from the index