jdatetime

jdatetime is Jalali implementation of Python's datetime module

Status

Install

pip install jdatetime

Documents

This module exactly follows Python Standard datetime module's methods http://docs.python.org/release/2.7.1/library/datetime.html

Also these methods are addedd to jdatetime.date and jdatetime.datetime :

|  fromgregorian(**kw)
|      Convert gregorian to jalali and return jdatetime.date
|      jdatetime.date.fromgregorian(day=X,month=X,year=X)
|      jdatetime.date.fromgregorian(date=datetime.date)
|      jdatetime.date.fromgregorian(datetime=datetime.datetime)
|  togregorian(self)
|      Convert current jalali date to gregorian and return datetime.date
|  isleap(self)
|      check if year is leap year
|      algortim is based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

Example

$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>> import jdatetime
>>> jdatetime.datetime.now()
jdatetime.datetime(1394, 12, 4, 8, 37, 31, 855729)
>>> jdatetime.date.today()
jdatetime.date(1394, 12, 4)

Locale

In order to get the date string in farsi you need to set the locale to fa_IR

$ python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Mar  1 2015, 12:57:24)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>> import locale
>>> import jdatetime
>> jdatetime.datetime.now().strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")
u'Wed, 08 Ord 1395 20:47:32'
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "fa_IR")
'fa_IR'
>>> jdatetime.datetime.now().strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")
u'\u0686\u0647\u0627\u0631\u0634\u0646\u0628\u0647, 08 \u0627\u0631\u062f\u06cc\u0628\u0647\u0634\u062a 1395 20:47:56'

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