ENH: Return locale based month_name and weekday_name values (#12805, #12806)

doc/source/api.rst

@@ -551,7 +551,6 @@ These can be accessed like ``Series.dt.<property>``.
    Series.dt.weekofyear
    Series.dt.dayofweek
    Series.dt.weekday
-   Series.dt.weekday_name
    Series.dt.dayofyear
    Series.dt.quarter
    Series.dt.is_month_start
@@ -581,6 +580,8 @@ These can be accessed like ``Series.dt.<property>``.
    Series.dt.round
    Series.dt.floor
    Series.dt.ceil
+   Series.dt.month_name
+   Series.dt.day_name
 
 **Timedelta Properties**
 
@@ -1723,7 +1724,6 @@ Time/Date Components
    DatetimeIndex.week
    DatetimeIndex.dayofweek
    DatetimeIndex.weekday
-   DatetimeIndex.weekday_name
    DatetimeIndex.quarter
    DatetimeIndex.tz
    DatetimeIndex.freq
@@ -1759,6 +1759,8 @@ Time-specific operations
    DatetimeIndex.round
    DatetimeIndex.floor
    DatetimeIndex.ceil
+   DatetimeIndex.month_name
+   DatetimeIndex.day_name
 
 Conversion
 ~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -1940,7 +1942,6 @@ Properties
     Timestamp.tzinfo
     Timestamp.value
     Timestamp.week
-    Timestamp.weekday_name
     Timestamp.weekofyear
     Timestamp.year
 
@@ -1954,6 +1955,7 @@ Methods
     Timestamp.combine
     Timestamp.ctime
     Timestamp.date
+    Timestamp.day_name
     Timestamp.dst
     Timestamp.floor
     Timestamp.freq
@@ -1963,6 +1965,7 @@ Methods
     Timestamp.isocalendar
     Timestamp.isoformat
     Timestamp.isoweekday
+    Timestamp.month_name
     Timestamp.normalize
     Timestamp.now
     Timestamp.replace

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt

@@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ Other Enhancements
 - For subclassed ``DataFrames``, :func:`DataFrame.apply` will now preserve the ``Series`` subclass (if defined) when passing the data to the applied function (:issue:`19822`)
 - :func:`DataFrame.from_dict` now accepts a ``columns`` argument that can be used to specify the column names when ``orient='index'`` is used (:issue:`18529`)
 - Added option ``display.html.use_mathjax`` so `MathJax <https://www.mathjax.org/>`_ can be disabled when rendering tables in ``Jupyter`` notebooks (:issue:`19856`, :issue:`19824`)
-
+- :meth:`Timestamp.month_name`, :meth:`DatetimeIndex.month_name`, and :meth:`Series.dt.month_name` are now available (:issue:`12805`)
+- :meth:`Timestamp.day_name` and :meth:`DatetimeIndex.day_name` are now available to return day names with a specified locale (:issue:`12806`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0230.api_breaking:
 
@@ -677,6 +678,7 @@ Deprecations
 - The ``broadcast`` parameter of ``.apply()`` is deprecated in favor of ``result_type='broadcast'`` (:issue:`18577`)
 - The ``reduce`` parameter of ``.apply()`` is deprecated in favor of ``result_type='reduce'`` (:issue:`18577`)
 - The ``order`` parameter of :func:`factorize` is deprecated and will be removed in a future release (:issue:`19727`)
+- :attr:`Timestamp.weekday_name`, :attr:`DatetimeIndex.weekday_name`, and :attr:`Series.dt.weekday_name` are deprecated in favor of :meth:`Timestamp.day_name`, :meth:`DatetimeIndex.day_name`, and :meth:`Series.dt.day_name` (:issue:`12806`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0230.prior_deprecations:
 

pandas/_libs/tslibs/ccalendar.pyx

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ cimport numpy as cnp
 from numpy cimport int64_t, int32_t
 cnp.import_array()
 
+from locale import LC_TIME
+from strptime import LocaleTime
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Constants
@@ -35,11 +37,18 @@ cdef int32_t* _month_offset = [
 # Canonical location for other modules to find name constants
 MONTHS = ['JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR', 'APR', 'MAY', 'JUN', 'JUL',
           'AUG', 'SEP', 'OCT', 'NOV', 'DEC']
+# The first blank line is consistent with calendar.month_name in the calendar
+# standard library
+MONTHS_FULL = ['', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June',
+               'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November',
+               'December']
 MONTH_NUMBERS = {name: num for num, name in enumerate(MONTHS)}
 MONTH_ALIASES = {(num + 1): name for num, name in enumerate(MONTHS)}
 MONTH_TO_CAL_NUM = {name: num + 1 for num, name in enumerate(MONTHS)}
 
 DAYS = ['MON', 'TUE', 'WED', 'THU', 'FRI', 'SAT', 'SUN']
+DAYS_FULL = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday',
+             'Saturday', 'Sunday']
 int_to_weekday = {num: name for num, name in enumerate(DAYS)}
 weekday_to_int = {int_to_weekday[key]: key for key in int_to_weekday}
 
@@ -199,3 +208,23 @@ cpdef int32_t get_day_of_year(int year, int month, int day) nogil:
 
     day_of_year = mo_off + day
     return day_of_year
+
+
+cpdef get_locale_names(object name_type, object locale=None):
+    """Returns an array of localized day or month names
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    name_type : string, attribute of LocaleTime() in which to return localized
+        names
+    locale : string
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    list of locale names
+
+    """
+    from pandas.util.testing import set_locale
+
+    with set_locale(locale, LC_TIME):
+        return getattr(LocaleTime(), name_type)

pandas/_libs/tslibs/fields.pyx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ cimport numpy as cnp
 from numpy cimport ndarray, int64_t, int32_t, int8_t
 cnp.import_array()
 
-
+from ccalendar import get_locale_names, MONTHS_FULL, DAYS_FULL
 from ccalendar cimport (get_days_in_month, is_leapyear, dayofweek,
                         get_week_of_year, get_day_of_year)
 from np_datetime cimport (pandas_datetimestruct, pandas_timedeltastruct,
@@ -85,34 +85,49 @@ def build_field_sarray(ndarray[int64_t] dtindex):
 
 @cython.wraparound(False)
 @cython.boundscheck(False)
-def get_date_name_field(ndarray[int64_t] dtindex, object field):
+def get_date_name_field(ndarray[int64_t] dtindex, object field,
+                        object locale=None):
     """
     Given a int64-based datetime index, return array of strings of date
     name based on requested field (e.g. weekday_name)
     """
     cdef:
         Py_ssize_t i, count = 0
-        ndarray[object] out
+        ndarray[object] out, names
         pandas_datetimestruct dts
         int dow
 
-    _dayname = np.array(
-        ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday',
-            'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday'],
-        dtype=np.object_)
-
     count = len(dtindex)
     out = np.empty(count, dtype=object)
 
-    if field == 'weekday_name':
+    if field == 'day_name' or field == 'weekday_name':
+        if locale is None:
+            names = np.array(DAYS_FULL, dtype=np.object_)
+        else:
+            names = np.array(get_locale_names('f_weekday', locale),
+                             dtype=np.object_)
         for i in range(count):
             if dtindex[i] == NPY_NAT:
                 out[i] = np.nan
                 continue
 
             dt64_to_dtstruct(dtindex[i], &dts)
             dow = dayofweek(dts.year, dts.month, dts.day)
-            out[i] = _dayname[dow]
+            out[i] = names[dow].capitalize()
+        return out
+    elif field == 'month_name':
+        if locale is None:
+            names = np.array(MONTHS_FULL, dtype=np.object_)
+        else:
+            names = np.array(get_locale_names('f_month', locale),
+                             dtype=np.object_)
+        for i in range(count):
+            if dtindex[i] == NPY_NAT:
+                out[i] = np.nan
+                continue
+
+            dt64_to_dtstruct(dtindex[i], &dts)
+            out[i] = names[dts.month].capitalize()
         return out
 
     raise ValueError("Field %s not supported" % field)

pandas/_libs/tslibs/nattype.pyx

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # cython: profile=False
-import warnings
 
 from cpython cimport (
     PyFloat_Check, PyComplex_Check,
@@ -39,24 +38,19 @@ _nat_scalar_rules[Py_GE] = False
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-def _make_nan_func(func_name, cls):
+def _make_nan_func(func_name, doc):
     def f(*args, **kwargs):
         return np.nan
     f.__name__ = func_name
-    f.__doc__ = getattr(cls, func_name).__doc__
+    f.__doc__ = doc
     return f
 
 
-def _make_nat_func(func_name, cls):
+def _make_nat_func(func_name, doc):
     def f(*args, **kwargs):
         return NaT
-
     f.__name__ = func_name
-    if isinstance(cls, str):
-        # passed the literal docstring directly
-        f.__doc__ = cls
-    else:
-        f.__doc__ = getattr(cls, func_name).__doc__
+    f.__doc__ = doc
     return f
 
 
@@ -318,11 +312,40 @@ class NaTType(_NaT):
     # These are the ones that can get their docstrings from datetime.
 
     # nan methods
-    weekday = _make_nan_func('weekday', datetime)
-    isoweekday = _make_nan_func('isoweekday', datetime)
+    weekday = _make_nan_func('weekday', datetime.weekday.__doc__)
+    isoweekday = _make_nan_func('isoweekday', datetime.isoweekday.__doc__)
+    month_name = _make_nan_func('month_name',  # noqa:E128
+        """
+        Return the month name of the Timestamp with specified locale.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        locale : string, default None (English locale)
+            locale determining the language in which to return the month name
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        month_name : string
+
+        .. versionadded:: 0.23.0
+        """)
+    day_name = _make_nan_func('day_name', # noqa:E128
+        """
+        Return the day name of the Timestamp with specified locale.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        locale : string, default None (English locale)
+            locale determining the language in which to return the day name
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        day_name : string
+
+        .. versionadded:: 0.23.0
+        """)
     # _nat_methods
-    date = _make_nat_func('date', datetime)
+    date = _make_nat_func('date', datetime.date.__doc__)
 
     utctimetuple = _make_error_func('utctimetuple', datetime)
     timetz = _make_error_func('timetz', datetime)

pandas/_libs/tslibs/timestamps.pyx

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ cimport ccalendar
 from conversion import tz_localize_to_utc, date_normalize
 from conversion cimport (tz_convert_single, _TSObject,
                          convert_to_tsobject, convert_datetime_to_tsobject)
-from fields import get_date_field, get_start_end_field
+from fields import get_start_end_field, get_date_name_field
 from nattype import NaT
 from nattype cimport NPY_NAT
 from np_datetime import OutOfBoundsDatetime
@@ -352,6 +352,16 @@ cdef class _Timestamp(datetime):
                                   field, freqstr, month_kw)
         return out[0]
 
+    cpdef _get_date_name_field(self, object field, object locale):
+        cdef:
+            int64_t val
+            ndarray out
+
+        val = self._maybe_convert_value_to_local()
+        out = get_date_name_field(np.array([val], dtype=np.int64),
+                                  field, locale=locale)
+        return out[0]
+
     @property
     def _repr_base(self):
         return '{date} {time}'.format(date=self._date_repr,
@@ -714,12 +724,50 @@ class Timestamp(_Timestamp):
     def dayofweek(self):
         return self.weekday()
 
+    def day_name(self, locale=None):
+        """
+        Return the day name of the Timestamp with specified locale.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        locale : string, default None (English locale)
+            locale determining the language in which to return the day name
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        day_name : string
+
+        .. versionadded:: 0.23.0
+        """
+        return self._get_date_name_field('day_name', locale)
+
+    def month_name(self, locale=None):
+        """
+        Return the month name of the Timestamp with specified locale.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        locale : string, default None (English locale)
+            locale determining the language in which to return the month name
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        month_name : string
+
+        .. versionadded:: 0.23.0
+        """
+        return self._get_date_name_field('month_name', locale)
+
     @property
     def weekday_name(self):
-        cdef dict wdays = {0: 'Monday', 1: 'Tuesday', 2: 'Wednesday',
-                           3: 'Thursday', 4: 'Friday', 5: 'Saturday',
-                           6: 'Sunday'}
-        return wdays[self.weekday()]
+        """
+        .. deprecated:: 0.23.0
+            Use ``Timestamp.day_name()`` instead
+        """
+        warnings.warn("`weekday_name` is deprecated and will be removed in a "
+                      "future version. Use `day_name` instead",
+                      DeprecationWarning)
+        return self.day_name()
 
     @property
     def dayofyear(self):