Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
The calendar or datetime modules should have a way of calculating the nth weekday of a month. The use case is that many laws define a statutory holidays as the nth weekday of a month (this includes most US holidays). This would complement the datetime.easter function and have use outside Christian-majority countries.
Guided by this Stack Overflow question, I wrote this function:
def ordinalday(year, month, nth, weekday) -> datetime.date:
monthcal = calendar.Calendar(firstweekday=calendar.SUNDAY).monthdatescalendar(year, month)
return [day for week in monthcal for day in week
if day.weekday() == weekday and
day.month == month][nth - 1]This is probably not the Pythonic or robust way to do this, which strengthens my argument that the algorithm should be standardised.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
Honestly, I'm hesitant to make another website account to discuss one feature.
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
The calendar or datetime modules should have a way of calculating the nth weekday of a month. The use case is that many laws define a statutory holidays as the nth weekday of a month (this includes most US holidays). This would complement the datetime.easter function and have use outside Christian-majority countries.
Guided by this Stack Overflow question, I wrote this function:
This is probably not the Pythonic or robust way to do this, which strengthens my argument that the algorithm should be standardised.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
Honestly, I'm hesitant to make another website account to discuss one feature.