Easy_Date

• https://github.com/ralphavalon/easy_date

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easy-date

Let's face it: there's no JodaTime for Python, and dealing with date, datetime, timestamp in Python it's not very readable or easy to understand. Easy_date can convert between str, date, datetime and timestamp easily for you and it is readable.

Example - String to String

import easy_date

str_date = '25/12/2014' #%d/%m/%Y
new_str_date = easy_date.convert_from_string(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y', '%m-%d-%Y') # str is default return type

new_str_date will be 12-25-2014.

Installation

Install the latest stable release with:

pip install easy_date

or

easy_install -U easy_date

There are no hard dependencies other than the Python standard library. It works with Python 2.6+ and 3.x, but it wasn't tested on previous versions.

How do I convert dates?

Can use two ways:

• Using easy_date

from datetime import date, datetime
import easy_date

str_date = '25/12/2014' #%d/%m/%Y

#convert_from_string(string, current_format, to_format, to_type)

new_str_date = easy_date.convert_from_string(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y', '%m-%d-%Y') # str is default return type

date_time = easy_date.convert_from_string(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y', '%Y-%m-%d', datetime)

timestamp = easy_date.convert_from_string(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y', None, float) # e.g. 1419472800.0

my_date = easy_date.convert_from_string(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y', None, date)

• Using date_converter

from datetime import date, datetime
import date_converter

str_date = '25/12/2014' #%d/%m/%Y

#string_to_string(string, current_format, to_format)
new_str_date = date_converter.string_to_string(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y', '%m-%d-%Y')

#string_to_datetime(string, current_format, to_format)
date_time = date_converter.string_to_datetime(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y', '%Y-%m-%d')

#string_to_timestamp(string, current_format)
timestamp = date_converter.string_to_timestamp(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y')

#string_to_date(string, current_format)
my_date = date_converter.string_to_date(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y')

Available methods

• from easy_date

#Acceptable types: (str, datetime.datetime, datetime.date, float)
convert_from_string(string, current_format, to_format, to_type=str)

#Acceptable types: (str, datetime.datetime, datetime.date, float)
convert_from_datetime(from_datetime, to_format, to_type=str)

#Acceptable types: (str, datetime.datetime, float)
convert_from_date(from_date, to_format, to_type=str)

#Acceptable types: (str, datetime.datetime, datetime.date)
convert_from_timestamp(timestamp, to_format, to_type=str)

• from date_converter

#from datetime.date
date_to_datetime(from_date)
date_to_string(from_date, to_format)
date_to_timestamp(from_date)

#from datetime.datetime
datetime_to_date(from_datetime)
datetime_to_datetime(from_datetime, to_format)
datetime_to_string(from_datetime, to_format)
datetime_to_timestamp(from_datetime)

#from str
string_to_date(string, current_format)
string_to_datetime(string, current_format, to_format=None)
string_to_string(string, current_format, to_format)
string_to_timestamp(string, current_format)

#from float
timestamp_to_date(timestamp)
timestamp_to_datetime(timestamp, to_format=None)
timestamp_to_string(timestamp, to_format)

Development

• All tests were executed using Brazil (America/Sao_Paulo) timezone. So, if you're not on this timezone and want to run tests, you can do:

sudo ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo /etc/localtime

• You can back to your timezone using the same way.
• You can take a look on travis_setup.sh.

Contribution guidelines

• Every help or suggestion is welcome.

License

• Code and documentation are available according to the MIT License (see LICENSE.md).