fiscalyear 0.1.0

Utilities for managing the fiscal calendar

Overview

fiscalyear is a small, lightweight Python module providing helpful utilities for managing the fiscal calendar. It is designed as an extension of the built-in datetime and calendar modules, adding the ability to query the fiscal year and fiscal quarter of a date or datetime object.

Basic Usage

fiscalyear provides several useful classes.

FiscalYear

The FiscalYear class provides an object for storing information about the start and end of a particular fiscal year.

>>> from fiscalyear import *
>>> a = FiscalYear(2017)
>>> a.start
FiscalDateTime(2016, 10, 1, 0, 0)
>>> a.end
FiscalDateTime(2017, 9, 30, 23, 59, 59)

FiscalQuarter

The FiscalYear class also allows you to query information about a specific quarter.

>>> a.q3.start
FiscalDateTime(2017, 4, 1, 0, 0)
>>> a.q3.end
FiscalDateTime(2017, 6, 30, 23, 59, 59)

These objects represent the standalone FiscalQuarter class.

>>> b = FiscalQuarter(2017, 3)
>>> b.start
FiscalDateTime(2017, 4, 1, 0, 0)
>>> b.end
FiscalDateTime(2017, 6, 30, 23, 59, 59)
>>> a.q3 == b
True
>>> b in a
True

FiscalDateTime

The start and end of each quarter are stored as instances of the FiscalDateTime class. This class provides all of the same features as the datetime class, with the addition of the ability to query the fiscal year and quarter.

>>> c = FiscalDateTime.now()
>>> c
FiscalDateTime(2017, 4, 8, 20, 30, 31, 105323)
>>> c.fiscal_year
2017
>>> c.quarter
3
>>> c.next_quarter
FiscalQuarter(2017, 4)

FiscalDate

If you don’t care about the time component of the FiscalDateTime class, the FiscalDate class is right for you.

>>> d = FiscalDate.today()
>>> d
FiscalDate(2017, 4, 8)
>>> d.fiscal_year
2017
>>> d.prev_fiscal_year
FiscalYear(2016)

Installation

fiscalyear has no dependencies, making it simple and easy to install. The recommended way to install fiscalyear is with pip.

$ pip install fiscalyear

For alternate installation methods, see the Installation Documentation.

Documentation

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