Date calculations based on business calendars. (Python 3.6+)
Python implementation of https://github.com/gocardless/business
To get business, simply:
$ pip install business-python
In version 2.0.0 we have removed the bundled calendars. If you still need these they are available on v1.0.1.
- Download/create calendars to a directory within your project eg:
lib/calendars
- Change your code to include the
load_path
for your calendars - Continue using
.load("my_calendar")
as usual
# lib/calendars contains yml files
Calendar.load_paths = ['lib/calendars']
calendar = Calendar.load("my_calendar")
Get started with business by creating an instance of the calendar class, passing in a hash that specifies which days of the week are considered working days, and which days are holidays.
from business.calendar import Calendar
calendar = Calendar(
working_days=["monday", "tuesday", "wednesday", "thursday", "friday"],
# array items are either parseable date strings, or real datetime.date objects
holidays=["January 1st, 2020", "April 10th, 2020"],
extra_working_dates=[],
)
extra_working_dates
key makes the calendar to consider a weekend day as a working day.
If working_days
is missing, then common default is used (mon-fri).
If holidays
is missing, "no holidays" assumed.
If extra_working_dates
is missing, then no changes in working_days
will happen.
Elements of holidays
and extra_working_dates
may be either strings that Calendar.parse_date()
can understand, or YYYY-MM-DD (which is considered as a Date by Python YAML itself).
# lib/calendars/my_calendar.yml
working_days:
- Monday
- Sunday
holidays:
- 2017-01-08 # Same as January 8th, 2017
extra_working_dates:
- 2020-12-26 # Will consider 26 Dec 2020 (A Saturday), a working day
The load_cache
method allows a thread safe way to avoid reloading the same calendar multiple times, and provides a performant way to dynamically load calendars for different requests.
Define your calendars in a folder eg: lib/calendars
and set this directory on Calendar.load_paths=
Calendar.load_paths = ['lib/calendars']
calendar = Calendar.load_cache("my_calendar")
The parse_date
method is used to process the input date(s) in each method and return a datetime.date
object.
Calendar.parse_date("2019-01-01")
# => datetime.date(2019, 1, 1)
Supported data types are:
datetime.date
datetime.datetime
pandas.Timestamp
(treated asdatetime.datetime
)- date string parseable by
dateutil.parser.parse
numpy.datetime64
is not supported, but can be converted to datetime.date
:
numpy.datetime64('2014-06-01T23:00:05.453000000').astype('M8[D]').astype('O')
# => datetime.date(2014, 6, 1)
To check whether a given date is a business day (falls on one of the specified working days or extra working dates, and is not a holiday), use the is_business_day
method on Calendar
.
calendar.is_business_day("Monday, 8 June 2020")
# => true
calendar.is_business_day("Sunday, 7 June 2020")
# => false
For our purposes, date-based calculations are sufficient. Supporting time-based calculations as well makes the code significantly more complex. We chose to avoid this extra complexity by sticking solely to date-based mathematics.
The add_business_days
method is used to perform business day arithmetic on dates.
input_date = Calendar.parse_date("Thursday, 12 June 2014")
calendar.add_business_days(input_date, 4).strftime("%A, %d %B %Y")
# => "Wednesday, 18 June 2014"
calendar.add_business_days(input_date, -4).strftime("%A, %d %B %Y")
# => "Friday, 06 June 2014"
The roll_forward
and roll_backward
methods snap a date to a nearby business day. If provided with a business day, they will return that date. Otherwise, they will advance (forward for roll_forward
and backward for roll_backward
) until a business day is found.
input_date = Calendar.parse_date("Saturday, 14 June 2014")
calendar.roll_forward(input_date).strftime("%A, %d %B %Y")
# => "Monday, 16 June 2014"
calendar.roll_backward(input_date).strftime("%A, %d %B %Y")
# => "Friday, 13 June 2014"
In contrast, the next_business_day
and previous_business_day
methods will always move to a next or previous date until a business day is found, regardless if the input provided is a business day.
input_date = Calendar.parse_date("Monday, 9 June 2014")
calendar.roll_forward(input_date).strftime("%A, %d %B %Y")
# => "Monday, 09 June 2014"
calendar.next_business_day(input_date).strftime("%A, %d %B %Y")
# => "Tuesday, 10 June 2014"
calendar.previous_business_day(input_date).strftime("%A, %d %B %Y")
# => "Friday, 06 June 2014"
To count the number of business days between two dates, pass the dates to business_days_between
. This method counts from start of the first date to start of the second date. So, assuming no holidays, there would be two business days between a Monday and a Wednesday.
from datetime import timedelta
input_date = Calendar.parse_date("Saturday, 14 June 2014")
calendar.business_days_between(input_date, input_date + timedelta(days=7))
# => 5
The get_business_day_of_month
method return the running total of business days for a given date in that month. This method counts the number of business days from the start of the first day of the month to the given input date.
input_date = Calendar.parse_date("Thursday, 12 June 2014")
calendar.get_business_day_of_month(input_date)
# => 9
- This is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
- Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/gocardless/business-python.
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