hotdate 0.4.5

Intuitive date formatting.

hotdate is a library for doing friendly date formating. Its API is inspired by Moment.js.

hotdate wraps Python’s builtin datetime object with a layer that simplifies some common operations that are annoying to do with datetime. More importantly, hotdate provides functionality for doing friendly/human-readable relative date formatting. It even has one of those crazy “fluent interfaces” that are so hip with the kids these days.

A quick tour

Construction

You can create hotdate objects in a bunch of ways.

from hotdate import hotdate

# get the current time and date
>>> hotdate()
hotdate(2014, 3, 4, 21, 34, 3, 661600)

>>> hotdate(2011)
hotdate(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0)

>>> hotdate('2012 03', '%Y %m')
hotdate(2012, 3, 1, 0, 0)

>>> d = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> hotdate(d)
hotdate(2014, 3, 4, 21, 34, 3, 661600)

Formatting

You can use it to format dates:

>>> hotdate().format()
'2014-03-04T21:46:18'

>>> hotdate().format('%c')
'Tue Mar  4 21:47:03 2014'

“How long ago?”

>>> hotdate().from_now()
'just now'

>>> hotdate(2011).from_now()
'2 years ago'

>>> hotdate().add(minutes=30).from_now()
'29 minutes from now'

Calendar date formatting

>>> hotdate().calendar()
'Today at 09:50PM'

>>> hotdate().add(days=1).calendar()
'Tomorrow at 09:51PM'

>>> hotdate().subtract(days=4).calendar()
'Last Friday at 09:51PM'

>>> hotdate(2011).calendar()
'1/1/2011'

Use it just like a datetime

>>> hotdate().isoformat()
'2014-03-05T17:00:28.699772'

>>> hotdate.fromtimestamp(1311218002)
hotdate(2011, 7, 20, 23, 13, 22)

>>> hotdate().timetuple()
time.struct_time(tm_year=2014, tm_mon=3, tm_mday=5, tm_hour=17, tm_min=10, tm_sec=35, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=64, tm_isdst=-1)