Release version 0.5

CHANGES

@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Version 0.5
+===========
+
+Released September 5, 2016
+
+- Add support for Python 3.5
+- Add holidays and tests for Columbia, Denmark, Spain, United Kingdom
+- Fix Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in state of Georgia
+- Fix setup.py install error with non-standard sys default encoding
+
+
 Version 0.4.1
 =============
 

README.rst

@@ -33,20 +33,32 @@ Example Usage
     date(2015, 1, 1) in us_holidays  # True
     date(2015, 1, 2) in us_holidays  # False
 
-
+    # The Holiday class will also recognize strings of any format
+    # and int/float representing a Unix timestamp
     '2014-01-01' in us_holidays  # True
-    '1/1/2014' in us_holidays  # True
-    1388597445 in us_holidays  # True (Unix timestamp)
+    '1/1/2014' in us_holidays    # True
+    1388597445 in us_holidays    # True
 
     us_holidays.get('2014-01-01')  # "New Year's Day"
 
+    # Easily create custom Holiday objects with your own dates instead
+    # of using the pre-defined countries/states/provinces available
     custom_holidays = holidays.HolidayBase()
+    # Append custom holiday dates by passing:
+    # 1) a dict with date/name key/value pairs,
     custom_holidays.append({"2015-01-01": "New Year's Day"})
+    # 2) a list of dates (in any format: date, datetime, string, integer),
     custom_holidays.append(['2015-07-01', '07/04/2015'])
+    # 3) a single date item
     custom_holidays.append(date(2015, 12, 25))
+
     date(2015, 1, 1) in custom_holidays  # True
     date(2015, 1, 2) in custom_holidays  # False
-    '12/25/2015' in custom_holidays  # True
+    '12/25/2015' in custom_holidays      # True
+
+    # For more complex logic like 4th Monday of January, you can inherit the
+    # HolidayBase class and define your own _populate(year) method. See below
+    # documentation for examples.
 
 
 Install

holidays.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #  Author:  ryanss <[email protected]>
 #  Website: https://github.com/ryanss/holidays.py
 #  License: MIT (see LICENSE file)
-#  Version: 0.4.1 (January 5, 2016)
+#  Version: 0.5 (September 5, 2016)
 
 
 from datetime import date, datetime
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 import six
 
 
-__version__ = '0.4.1'
+__version__ = '0.5'
 
 
 MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY = range(7)

setup.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #  Author:  ryanss <[email protected]>
 #  Website: https://github.com/ryanss/holidays.py
 #  License: MIT (see LICENSE file)
-#  Version: 0.4.1 (January 5, 2016)
+#  Version: 0.5 (September 5, 2016)
 
 
 import codecs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='holidays',
-    version='0.4.1',
+    version='0.5',
     author='ryanss',
     author_email='[email protected]',
     url='https://github.com/ryanss/holidays.py',
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy',
         'Topic :: Office/Business :: Scheduling',
         'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',

tests.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #  Author:  ryanss <[email protected]>
 #  Website: https://github.com/ryanss/holidays.py
 #  License: MIT (see LICENSE file)
-#  Version: 0.4.1 (January 5, 2016)
+#  Version: 0.5 (September 5, 2016)
 
 from itertools import product
 from datetime import date, datetime