OZ Holiday
A simple function to check a given date a public holiday or not in Australia, really easy to use.
- Use the data from data.gov.au
- Only use Python standard libraries
- Only one function - keep it simple
- Save a
jsonfile to local, and get a new file if the cached file is more than 180 old
Search
HOMEorUSERPROFILE(for Windows), if not found, create on current direct./
Installation
pip install ozholidayOr
git clone https://github.com/zhongdai/ozholiday.git
cd ozholiday
python setup.py installUsage
In [1]: from ozholiday import isholiday
In [2]: isholiday('20170101')
Out[2]: True
In [3]: isholiday('20170101',detail=True)
Out[3]:
{'Applicable To': 'NAT',
'Date': '20170101',
'Holiday Name': "New Year's Day",
'Information': "New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year and is celebrated each January 1st",
'More Information': '',
'_id': 1}
In [5]: isholiday('20170103')
Out[5]: False
In [9]: isholiday('20190102')
ValueError: The date 20190102 is not in current list published by data.gov.au,
Check here https://data.gov.au/dataset/australian-holidays-machine-readable-dataset
