A Chinese Calendar Library in Pure Python

Chinese Calendar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar

Usage

>>> LunarDate.fromSolarDate(1976, 10, 1)
LunarDate(1976, 8, 8, 1)
>>> LunarDate(1976, 8, 8, 1).toSolarDate()
datetime.date(1976, 10, 1)
>>> LunarDate(1976, 8, 8, 1).year
1976
>>> LunarDate(1976, 8, 8, 1).month
8
>>> LunarDate(1976, 8, 8, 1).day
8
>>> LunarDate(1976, 8, 8, 1).isLeapMonth
True

>>> today = LunarDate.today()
>>> type(today).__name__
'LunarDate'

>>> # support '+' and '-' between datetime.date and datetime.timedelta
>>> ld = LunarDate(1976,8,8)
>>> sd = datetime.date(2008,1,1)
>>> td = datetime.timedelta(days=10)
>>> ld-ld
datetime.timedelta(0)
>>> ld-sd
datetime.timedelta(-11444)
>>> ld-td
LunarDate(1976, 7, 27, 0)
>>> sd-ld
datetime.timedelta(11444)
>>> ld+td
LunarDate(1976, 8, 18, 0)
>>> td+ld
LunarDate(1976, 8, 18, 0)
>>> ld2 = LunarDate.today()
>>> ld < ld2
True
>>> ld <= ld2
True
>>> ld > ld2
False
>>> ld >= ld2
False
>>> ld == ld2
False
>>> ld != ld2
True
>>> ld == ld
True
>>> LunarDate.today() == LunarDate.today()
True

News

• 0.1.5: fix bug in ==
• 0.1.4: support '+', '-' and compare, fix bug in year 2050
• 0.1.3: support python 3.0

Limits

this library can only deal with year from 1900 to 2049 (in chinese calendar).

See also

• lunar: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lunar.html, A converter written in C, this program is derived from it.
• python-lunar: http://code.google.com/p/liblunar/ Another library written in C, including a python binding.