Calculating lunar/lunisolar holidays in Python

Question

Any calendar nuts here? I\'ve been looking for information on how to calculate the holidays of the current year that occur irregularly in the Gregorian Calendar. Typically thi

Answer 1

I have coded both of these, using existing libraries.

Here is the code for Ramadan:

from convertdate import islamic

def ramadan(year):
    islamic_year = islamic.from_gregorian(year, 1, 1)[0]
    result = islamic.to_gregorian(islamic_year, 9, 1)
    if result[0] < year:
        result = islamic.to_gregorian(islamic_year+1, 9, 1)
    elif result[0] > year:
        result = islamic.to_gregorian(islamic_year-1, 9, 1)
    return date(*result)

Here is the code for Chinese New Year:

from lunardate import LunarDate

_yot = ('Rat', 'Ox', 'Tiger', 'Rabbit', 'Dragon', 'Snake', 'Horse', 'Goat', 'Monkey', 'Rooster', 'Dog', 'Pig')

def year_of_the(year):
    yr = (year - 2020) % len(_yot)
    return _yot[yr]

def chinese_new_year(year):
    """Returns a tuple of the (date, year_of_the: str)"""
    return (LunarDate(year, 1, 1).toSolarDate(), year_of_the(year))

I opened an enhancement request for convertdate to add them: https://github.com/fitnr/convertdate/issues/24