pend
This is wrapper of pendulum.
Pendulum is too long and a hassle to type. But pend is easy. That's just it.
Install
pip install pend
Use
>>> import pend
>>> now_in_paris = pend.now('Europe/Paris')
>>> now_in_paris
'2016-07-04T00:49:58.502116+02:00'
# Seamless timezone switching
>>> now_in_paris.in_timezone('UTC')
'2016-07-03T22:49:58.502116+00:00'
>>> tomorrow = pend.now().add(days=1)
>>> last_week = pend.now().subtract(weeks=1)
>>> past = pend.now().subtract(minutes=2)
>>> past.diff_for_humans()
>>> '2 minutes ago'
>>> delta = past - last_week
>>> delta.hours
23
>>> delta.in_words(locale='en')
'6 days 23 hours 58 minutes'
# Proper handling of datetime normalization
>>> pend.datetime(2013, 3, 31, 2, 30, tz='Europe/Paris')
'2013-03-31T03:30:00+02:00' # 2:30 does not exist (Skipped time)
# Proper handling of dst transitions
>>> just_before = pend.datetime(2013, 3, 31, 1, 59, 59, 999999, tz='Europe/Paris')
'2013-03-31T01:59:59.999999+01:00'
>>> just_before.add(microseconds=1)
'2013-03-31T03:00:00+02:00'