Generate ordinal dates
Project description
poshdate
Poshdate is a python package that creates ordinal dates from python datetime
and date
objects:
1st June 2021
23rd May 1990
It is extremely lightweight having no dependencies.
Getting Started
Installation
Poshdate can be installed using pip
python -m pip install poshdate
It is recommended to use a virtual environment for your project.
Usage
Poshdate requries the standard library datetime
package.
from datetime import datetime
import poshdate
example_date = datetime(2021, 4, 21)
print(poshdate.from_datetime(example_date)) # 21st April 2021
Another date module ??
Intended Audience
Poshdate provides a human readable date in the ordinal format. This is intended to be of use in report and document generation where an approximation of a handwritten style of date is seen as nicer and a bit classier than the standard output.
In other words
21st January 2020
looks better on the page than 21 January 2020
or 21/01/2020
What about existing packages ?
The python standard library datetime
module provides many useful string formatting options via the .strftime()
method. However, it does not provide an option to create ordinal style dates out of the box.
There are several other packages that do provide functionality to create ordinal style dates.
However, these provide a lot of extra functionality that may well be beyond the needs of a user requiring a simple ordinal style date, in addition to having several additional dependancies.
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