sam23121/baher_hasab

A python package for calculating Ethiopian holidays and fasting seasons # Baher Hasab (ባህረ ሃሳብ) 🇪🇹 ## Overview Ethiopia has its own ancient calendar based on the system called Baher Hasab - ባሕረ ሃሳብ which means the Sea of Ideas. Baher Hasab also known as Abushakir is a chronological system used for calculating the times of festivals and the beginning and ending of the fasting days throughout the year. The baher_hasab is a Python package that simplifies the process of working with the Baher Hasab (also known as Abushakir) calendar. This package provides a set of tools and functions to help users easily calculate the dates of festivals and the beginning and ending of fasting days throughout the year. ## Links - Documentation - Github - PyPI - Issues - Extra Information ## Key Features - **Calendar Conversion**: Easily convert between the Gregorian calendar and the Ethiopian calendar. - **Festival Calculations**: Automatically determine the dates of major festivals and holidays based on the Baher Hasab calculations. - **Fasting Day Tracking**: Effortlessly track the start and end dates of fasting periods throughout the year. ## Installation To install the package, you can use `pip`: ``` pip install baher_hasab ``` ## Usage Here's a simple example of how to use the package: ```python from baher_hasab import BaherHasab # Create a Bahire Hasab instance bh = BaherHasab(given_year=2016) # Get the date of a specific festival event_date = bh.get_event_date('hudade') print(event_date) # Outputs Megabit 2 ``` ## Contribution Contributions to the baher_hasab package are welcome! If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for new features, please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository. ## Note Defining some terms to get started: - **Baher Hasab**: Also known as Abushakir, is a chronological system used for calculating the times of festivals and the beginning and ending of the fasting days throughout the year. - **neneweh** (ነነዌ): is the Ethiopian name for The three day fast that the neneweh …