govuk-bank-holidays 0.2

Tool to load UK bank holidays from GOV.UK

Usage

Install using pip install govuk-bank-holidays. Sample usage:

from govuk_bank_holidays.bank_holidays import BankHolidays

bank_holidays = BankHolidays()
for bank_holiday in bank_holidays.get_holidays():
    print(bank_holiday['title'], '>', bank_holiday['date'])
print(bank_holidays.get_next_holiday())

# choose a different locale for holiday titles and notes
bank_holidays = BankHolidays(locale='cy')

Development

Please report bugs and open pull requests on GitHub.

Update translation files using python setup.py makemessages, e.g. when updating the i18n module or when adding new languages. Compile them using python setup.py compilemessages; this is required before testing and distribution.

Use python setup.py compilemessages test to run all tests.

Distribute a new version by updating the VERSION tuple in govuk_bank_holidays and run python setup.py compilemessages sdist bdist_wheel upload.

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 HM Government (Ministry of Justice Digital Services). See LICENSE.txt for further details.