[pull] master from joke2k:master

faker/providers/date_time/__init__.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from datetime import MAXYEAR, timedelta
 
 from dateutil import relativedelta
-from dateutil.tz import tzlocal, tzutc
+from dateutil.tz import gettz, tzlocal, tzutc
 
 from faker.utils.datetime_safe import date, datetime, real_date, real_datetime
 
@@ -1985,6 +1985,17 @@ def timezone(self):
         return self.generator.random.choice(
             self.random_element(self.countries)['timezones'])
 
+    def pytimezone(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Generate a random timezone (see `faker.timezone` for any args)
+        and return as a python object usable as a `tzinfo` to `datetime`
+        or other fakers.
+
+        :example faker.pytimezone()
+        :return dateutil.tz.tz.tzfile
+        """
+        return gettz(self.timezone(*args, **kwargs))
+
     def date_of_birth(self, tzinfo=None, minimum_age=0, maximum_age=115):
         """
         Generate a random date of birth represented as a Date object,

tests/providers/test_date_time.py

@@ -147,6 +147,16 @@ def test_timezone_conversion(self):
         today_back = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp, utc).date()
         assert today == today_back
 
+    def test_pytimezone(self):
+        import dateutil
+        pytz = self.fake.pytimezone()
+        assert isinstance(pytz, dateutil.tz.tz.tzfile)
+
+    def test_pytimezone_usable(self):
+        pytz = self.fake.pytimezone()
+        date = datetime(2000, 1, 1, tzinfo=pytz)
+        assert date.tzinfo == pytz
+
     def test_datetime_safe(self):
         from faker.utils import datetime_safe
         # test using example provided in module