Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex

\section{\module{calendar} ---
         General calendar-related functions}

\declaremodule{standard}{calendar}
\modulesynopsis{Functions for working with calendars,
                including some emulation of the \UNIX\ \program{cal}
                program.}
\sectionauthor{Drew Csillag}{drew_csillag@geocities.com}

This module allows you to output calendars like the \UNIX{}
\program{cal} program, and provides additional useful functions
related to the calendar. By default, these calendars have Monday as
the first day of the week, and Sunday as the last (the European
convention). Use \function{setfirstweekday()} to set the first day of the
week to Sunday (6) or to any other weekday.  Parameters that specify
dates are given as integers.

Most of these functions rely on the \module{datetime} module which
uses an idealized calendar, the current Gregorian calendar indefinitely
extended in both directions.  This matches the definition of the
"proleptic Gregorian" calendar in Dershowitz and Reingold's book
"Calendrical Calculations", where it's the base calendar for all
computations.

\begin{funcdesc}{setfirstweekday}{weekday}
Sets the weekday (\code{0} is Monday, \code{6} is Sunday) to start
each week. The values \constant{MONDAY}, \constant{TUESDAY},
\constant{WEDNESDAY}, \constant{THURSDAY}, \constant{FRIDAY},
\constant{SATURDAY}, and \constant{SUNDAY} are provided for
convenience. For example, to set the first weekday to Sunday:

\begin{verbatim}
import calendar
calendar.setfirstweekday(calendar.SUNDAY)
\end{verbatim}
\versionadded{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{firstweekday}{}
Returns the current setting for the weekday to start each week.
\versionadded{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{isleap}{year}
Returns \constant{True} if \var{year} is a leap year, otherwise
\constant{False}.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{leapdays}{y1, y2}
Returns the number of leap years in the range
[\var{y1}\ldots\var{y2}), where \var{y1} and \var{y2} are years.
\versionchanged[This function didn't work for ranges spanning 
                a century change in Python 1.5.2]{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{weekday}{year, month, day}
Returns the day of the week (\code{0} is Monday) for \var{year}
(\code{1970}--\ldots), \var{month} (\code{1}--\code{12}), \var{day}
(\code{1}--\code{31}).
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{weekheader}{n}
Return a header containing abbreviated weekday names. \var{n} specifies
the width in characters for one weekday.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{monthrange}{year, month}
Returns weekday of first day of the month and number of days in month, 
for the specified \var{year} and \var{month}.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{monthcalendar}{year, month}
Returns a matrix representing a month's calendar.  Each row represents
a week; days outside of the month a represented by zeros.
Each week begins with Monday unless set by \function{setfirstweekday()}.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{prmonth}{theyear, themonth\optional{, w\optional{, l}}}
Prints a month's calendar as returned by \function{month()}.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{month}{theyear, themonth\optional{, w\optional{, l}}}
Returns a month's calendar in a multi-line string. If \var{w} is
provided, it specifies the width of the date columns, which are
centered. If \var{l} is given, it specifies the number of lines that
each week will use. Depends on the first weekday as set by
\function{setfirstweekday()}.
\versionadded{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{prcal}{year\optional{, w\optional{, l\optional{c}}}}
Prints the calendar for an entire year as returned by 
\function{calendar()}.
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{calendar}{year\optional{, w\optional{, l\optional{c}}}}
Returns a 3-column calendar for an entire year as a multi-line string.
Optional parameters \var{w}, \var{l}, and \var{c} are for date column
width, lines per week, and number of spaces between month columns,
respectively. Depends on the first weekday as set by
\function{setfirstweekday()}.  The earliest year for which a calendar can
be generated is platform-dependent.
\versionadded{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}

\begin{funcdesc}{timegm}{tuple}
An unrelated but handy function that takes a time tuple such as
returned by the \function{gmtime()} function in the \refmodule{time}
module, and returns the corresponding \UNIX{} timestamp value, assuming
an epoch of 1970, and the POSIX encoding.  In fact,
\function{time.gmtime()} and \function{timegm()} are each others' inverse.
\versionadded{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}

The \module{calendar} module exports the following data attributes:

\begin{datadesc}{day_name}
An array that represents the days of the week in the
current locale.
\end{datadesc}

\begin{datadesc}{day_abbr}
An array that represents the abbreviated days of the week
in the current locale.
\end{datadesc}

\begin{datadesc}{month_name}
An array that represents the months of the year in the
current locale.  This follows normal convention
of January being month number 1, so it has a length of 13 and 
\code{month_name[0]} is the empty string.
\end{datadesc}

\begin{datadesc}{month_abbr}
An array that represents the abbreviated months of the year
in the current locale.  This follows normal convention
of January being month number 1, so it has a length of 13 and 
\code{month_abbr[0]} is the empty string.
\end{datadesc}

\begin{seealso}
  \seemodule{datetime}{Object-oriented interface to dates and times
                       with similar functionality to the
                       \refmodule{time} module.}
  \seemodule{time}{Low-level time related functions.}
\end{seealso}