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

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

>>> from datetime import date
>>> from workalendar.europe import FranceCalendar
>>> cal = FranceCalendar()
>>> cal.get_calendar_holidays(2012)
set([datetime.date(2012, 5, 17),
     datetime.date(2012, 11, 11),
     datetime.date(2012, 11, 1),
     datetime.date(2012, 5, 8),
     datetime.date(2012, 5, 28),
     datetime.date(2012, 7, 14),
     datetime.date(2012, 5, 1),
     datetime.date(2012, 4, 9),
     datetime.date(2012, 1, 1),
     datetime.date(2012, 8, 15),
     datetime.date(2012, 12, 25)])
>>> cal.is_workday(date(2012, 12, 25))  # it's Christmas
False
>>> cal.is_workday(date(2012, 12, 30))  # it's Sunday
False
>>> cal.is_workday(date(2012, 12, 26))
True

Travis status:

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

nosetests

from the command line.

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