Calculating days using Business Days for the Calendar

[David Stockwell]

I''m wondering if the Calendar object has an option to only do calculations
based on business days (ie M-F). Additionally does it have a way to get
holidays into itself?

Currently I'm considering converting my calculations over to business days
and am wondering if there is anything built-in. I've tried searching but so
far haven't seen such a thing built in.

I'm thinking I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and create my own
approach to
1) figure out the day of the week of my starting date (Calendar.weekday()
should do the trick)
2) determine the number of days up to my finish date (i do that now)
3) determine the number of non-business days (weekends + holidays)
4) subtract off the number in #3 from #2


David
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[Robin Becker]

I''m wondering if the Calendar object has an option to only do
calculations based on business days (ie M-F). Additionally does it have
a way to get holidays into itself?

Currently I'm considering converting my calculations over to business
days and am wondering if there is anything built-in. I've tried
searching but so far haven't seen such a thing built in.

I'm thinking I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and create my own
approach to
1) figure out the day of the week of my starting date
(Calendar.weekday() should do the trick)
2) determine the number of days up to my finish date (i do that now)
3) determine the number of non-business days (weekends + holidays)
4) subtract off the number in #3 from #2


David

.... ReportLab's version of jeff Bauer's normalDate module has a BusinessDate
object which does businessday diffs etc etc.

 

[Anna Martelli Ravenscroft]

I''m wondering if the Calendar object has an option to only do
calculations based on business days (ie M-F). Additionally does it have
a way to get holidays into itself?

Currently I'm considering converting my calculations over to business
days and am wondering if there is anything built-in. I've tried
searching but so far haven't seen such a thing built in.

I'm thinking I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and create my own
approach to
1) figure out the day of the week of my starting date
(Calendar.weekday() should do the trick)
2) determine the number of days up to my finish date (i do that now)
3) determine the number of non-business days (weekends + holidays)
4) subtract off the number in #3 from #2

AFAIK - there is no built-in to calculate this. Part of the problem may
be that the European work week often includes Saturdays.

I created my own - in fact, that was my very first Python program. (That
was before the new datetime and dateutil modules.) I've long since lost
that script (left it on my work computer), but there's better ways to do
it now anyway.

Some notes on rolling your own:
Be careful on determining the number of days in your step (2) above -
you can easily end up with off-by-one errors.

Also, you'll need to set up your own list (or dict) of holidays - they
vary by region (and by union). I created a script for that so I could
add to it, pickled it and imported it at need.

dateutil is great and the documentation is pretty kewl - but has an
unfortunate tendency toward "from module import *"... Other than that,
it's a really kewl module - be sure to check out the date parser.

Here's a snippet of code that does the job but would need to be prettied up:

import datetime
from dateutil import rrule

alpha=datetime.date(2004, 01, 01) # change to accept input
omega=datetime.date(2004, 02, 01) # change to accept input

dates=rrule.rruleset() # create an rrule.rruleset instance

dates.rrule(rrule.rrule(rrule.FREQ_DAILY, dtstart=alpha, until=omega))
# this set is INCLUSIVE of alpha and omega

dates.exrule(rrule.rrule(rrule.FREQ_DAILY,
byweekday=(rrule.SA, rrule.SU),
dtstart=alpha))
# here's where we exclude the weekend dates

print len(list(dates)) # there's probably a faster way to handle this

HTH
Anna