govuk-bank-holidays 0.7

Tool to load UK bank holidays from GOV.UK

This library loads the official list of bank holidays in the United Kingdom as supplied by GOV.UK. GOV.UK tend to provide this list for only a year or two into the future.

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())
# see govuk_bank_holidays/bank_holidays.py source file for more methods and arguments…

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

Bank holidays differ around the UK. The GOV.UK source currently lists these for 3 “divisions”:

• England and Wales

• Scotland

• Northern Ireland

… and many methods in this library take a division parameter (see constants defined on BankHolidays class).

NB: If no division is specified, only holidays common to all divisions are returned so some local bank holidays may not be listed. Therefore specifying a division is recommended.

While localisation is provided in English (the default with locale code ‘en’) and Welsh (locale code ‘cy’), please note that the Welsh version may contain errors.

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 (C) 2020 HM Government (Ministry of Justice Digital & Technology). See LICENSE.txt for further details.