vacances-scolaires-france 0.4

Get school holiday dates for metropolitan France

Vacances scolaires France

This package can be used to find the dates of school holidays in France, since 2009.

In French in the text: cette librairie permet de connaître les dates des vacances scolaires en France, depuis 2009, pour les zones A, B et C.

La répartition en trois zones de vacances A, B et C a été fixée par l'arrêté du 24 juillet 1995, publié au Journal Officiel du 8 août 1995.

• Zone A : Académies de Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Rennes, Toulouse
• Zone B : Académies de : Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Besançon, Dijon, Lille, Limoges, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Poitiers, Reims, Rouen , Strasbourg,
• Zone C : Académies de Bordeaux, Créteil, Paris, Versailles

Installation

pip install vacances-scolaires-france

Usage

from vacances_scolaires_france import SchoolHolidayDates

import datetime

d = SchoolHolidayDates()
# Is it an holiday for zone A, B or C?
d.is_holiday(datetime.date(2017, 12, 25))
# Returns: True

# Is it an holiday for a given zone?
d.is_holiday_for_zone(datetime.date(2009, 2, 7), 'A')
# Returns: True

# Get holidays for any zone in a year
d.holidays_for_year(2018)
# Returns: {datetime.date(2018, 1, 1): OrderedDict([('date', datetime.date(2018, 01, 01)), ('vacances_zone_a', True), ('vacances_zone_b', True), ('vacances_zone_c', True), ('nom_vacances', 'Vacances de Noël')]), ...}

# Get holiday dates given a year and an holiday name
d.holiday_for_year_by_name(2017, 'Vacances de la Toussaint')
# Returns: {datetime.date(2017, 10, 21): OrderedDict([('date', datetime.date(2017, 10, 21)), ('vacances_zone_a', True), ('vacances_zone_b', True), ('vacances_zone_c', True), ...}

# Get holiday dates for a given year and zone
d.holidays_for_year_and_zone(2017, 'A')
# Returns: {datetime.date(2017, 1, 1): OrderedDict([('date', datetime.date(2017, 01, 01)), ('vacances_zone_a', True), ('vacances_zone_b', True), ('vacances_zone_c', True), ...}

# Get holiday dates for a given year, zone and holiday name
d.holidays_for_year_zone_and_name(2017, 'A', 'Vacances de Noël')
# Returns: {datetime.date(2017, 1, 1): OrderedDict([('date', datetime.date(2017, 1, 1)), ('vacances_zone_a', True), ('vacances_zone_b', True), ('vacances_zone_c', True), ('nom_vacances', 'Vacances de Noël')]), ...}

Zone names

Use the capital letters A, B or C.

Holiday names

You can use the following holiday names:

• Vacances de Noël
• Vacances d'hiver
• Vacances de printemps
• Vacances d'été
• Vacances de la Toussaint

Data

School holiday dates are coming from the "Vacances scolaires par zones" opendata dataset available on data.gouv.fr.

Bank holidays

Interested in bank holidays as well (jours fériés in French)? There is another pip package for this! Check out https://github.com/AntoineAugusti/jours-feries-france

Notice

This software is available under the MIT license and was developed as part of the Entrepreneur d'Intérêt Général program by the French government.

Projet développé dans le cadre du programme « Entrepreneur d’intérêt général ».