workalendar 0.2.0

Worldwide holidays and working days helper and toolkit.

Overview

Workalendar is a Python module that offers classes able to handle calendars, list legal / religious holidays and gives working-day-related computation functions.

Status

This is barely beta. Please consider this module as a work in progres.

Usage sample

>>> from datetime import date
>>> from workalendar.europe import France
>>> cal = France()
>>> cal.holidays(2012)
[(datetime.date(2012, 1, 1), 'New year'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 4, 9), 'Easter Monday'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 5, 1), 'Labour Day'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 5, 8), 'Victory in Europe Day'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 5, 17), 'Ascension Day'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 5, 28), 'Whit Monday'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 7, 14), 'Bastille Day'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 8, 15), 'Assumption of Mary to Heaven'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 11, 1), "All Saints' Day"),
 (datetime.date(2012, 11, 11), 'Armistice Day'),
 (datetime.date(2012, 12, 25), 'Christmas')]
>>> cal.is_working_day(date(2012, 12, 25))  # it's Christmas
False
>>> cal.is_working_day(date(2012, 12, 30))  # it's Sunday
False
>>> cal.is_working_day(date(2012, 12, 26))
True

External dependencies

You may want to install python-dev and/or python3-dev on your machine to either run the installation or run tests via tox.

Tests

Travis status:

To run test, just install tox with pip install tox and run:

tox

from the command line.

Available Calendars

Europe

• Belgium

• Czech Republic

• European Central Bank

• Finland

• France

• France (Alsace / Moselle)

• Greece

• Hungary

• Iceland

• Italy

• Norway

• Poland

• Sweden

• United Kingdom (incl. Northern Ireland)

America

• Brazil (incl. São Paulo state and city)

• Chile

• Mexico

• Panama

• United States of America (including state holidays)

• Canada (including provincial and territory holidays)

Asia

• Japan

• Qatar

• South Korea

• Taiwan

Oceania

• Australia (incl. its different states)

• Marshall Islands

Africa

• Algeria

• Benin

• Ivory Coast

• Madagascar

• São Tomé

• South Africa

And more to come (I hope!)

Caveats

Please take note that some calendars are not 100% accurate. The most common example is the Islamic calendar, where some computed holidays are not exactly on the same official day decided by religious authorities, and this may vary country by country. Whenever it’s possible, try to adjust your results with the official data provided by the adequate authorities.

Contributing

Please read our CONTRIBUTING.rst document to discover how you can contribute to workalendar. Pull-requests are very welcome.

License

This library is published under the terms of the MIT License. Please check the LICENSE file for more details.