gaurabda 0.8.4

Calculation of Gaurabda calendar (Gaudiya Vaishnava calendar)

Python library for calculating panchanga calendar with vaisnava events.

Installation

pip install gaurabda

Using

Here are a few examples of code that you can try quickly. Examples are related to calculation of calendar. Before calendar calculation we need to specify location and start date.

We can obtain location object basically in two ways:

• create new location

# import module

import gaurabda as gcal


# create new location

loc = gcal.GCLocation(data = {
    'latitude': 27.583,
    'longitude': 77.73,
    'tzname': '+5:30 Asia/Calcutta',
    'name': 'Vrindavan, India'
})

List of all timezones can be obtained by calling gcal.GetTimeZones().

• find location in existing list

# find existing location

loc = gcal.FindLocation(city='Vrindavan')

List of all countries gcal.GetCountries() and list of cities for given country: gcal.GetLocationsForCountry('India'). Function GetLocationsForCountry has optional parameter limit, that takes whole number limiting number of locations returned by this method. Default value is -1, that means there is no limit.

Then we need create date object.

today = gcal.Today()
print(repr(today))

date1 = gcal.GCGregorianDate(text='24 apr 2017')
print(repr(date1))

Constructor for GCGregorianDate contains more optional parameters:

• year, month, day that are whole natural numbers, year between 1500 - 2500, month 1-12, day according given month

• shour is from interval 0.0 up to 1.0 where 0.0 is mignight, 0.5 is noon (12:00 PM) and 1.0 is next midnight.

• tzone is offset from UTC 0:00 in hours, so value +5.5 means offset 5:30, which is actual for India

• date is existing GCGregorianDate object

• text can be text form of date (e.g. ‘24 Apr 2017’)

Parameters can be combined with certain succession of evaluation. Parameters are evaluated in this order, where later parameter overrides previous values.

• text

• date

• year

• month

• day

• shour

So for example, to get first day of current month, we may use:

d = gcal.GCGregorianDate(date=gcal.Today(), day=1)

Next step is to create calculation engine for calendar, execute calculation and write results to file:

# create calculation engine and calculate
tc = gcal.TCalendar()
tc.CalculateCalendar(loc,today,365)

# save results in various formats
with open('calendar.txt','wt') as wf:
    tc.write(wf, format='plain')
with open('test/calendar.rtf','wt') as wf:
    tc.write(wf, format='rtf')
with open('test/calendar.html','wt') as wf:
    tc.write(wf)
with open('test/calendar2.html','wt') as wf:
    tc.write(wf, layout='table')
with open('test/calendar.json','wt') as wf:
    tc.write(wf, format='json')
with open('test/calendar.xml','wt') as wf:
    tc.write(wf, format='xml')

Arguments for write method of TCalendar class:

• stream any text writer, for example subclass of io.TextWriter

• format this is optional parameter, default value is ‘html’, posible values are: ‘plain’, ‘rtf’, ‘xml’, ‘html’, ‘json’

• layout this is optional, denotes layout of output. It is effective for ‘html’ format, and possible values are ‘list’ and ‘table’. Default is ‘list’.

Setting of fasting style

There are two fasting styles available:

• 0. fasting rules based on Hari Bhakti Vilasa and applied after 2006 in GCAL program (refered as “new”)

• 1. fasting rules applied before year 2006 in VCAL program (refered as “old”)

To set fasting schema we need call method that does appropriate adjustment in configuration.

import gaurabda as gcal

gcal.SetFastingSchema(1)

In the example above we set “old” style fasting. It should be done before calculations in order to apply appropriate rules for the process of calculation.