Python / Pandas / Numpy - Direct calculation of number of business days between two dates excluding holidays

Question

Is there a better / more direct way to calculate this than the following?

# 1. Set up the start and end date for which you         


        

Answer 1

The businesstime library looks very similar, which does not necessitate pandas dataframes.

(From here: Is there a function in Python/Pandas to get business time Delta between two date times?)