Maya: Human-friendly Date and Time Handling for Python
A brief introduction to the project:
Maya is a GitHub project committed to simplifying the often complex task of handling date and time in Python. Its primary aim is to humanize the encoding and decoding of dates into an approachable and friendly format, shedding the complexities associated with time zone, daylight saving time and leap years. The project is highly significant to anybody dealing with datetime in Python, particularly those necessitating precise and consistent handling of time zones.
Project Overview:
Maya tends to solve the problem of complex datetime manipulations in Python, which often lead to bugs and serious inaccuracies, particularly when dealing with timezone conversions. It effectively addresses the need for a humane way of parsing, formatting, and performing various operations on dates and times. Maya is targeted primarily at Python developers and anybody dealing in the manipulation of dates and times in a Python environment.
Project Features:
-Maya prides itself on a few key features: it provides a simple, humane API for datetime parsing, formatting, and arithmetic, it supports timezone-aware and timezone-naïve datetimes, and it comes with built-in support for 44+ world locales for human-friendly date formatting. This project can convert any input datetime to a maya.Datetime object, which is always timezone-aware and based on UTC. All these features lend themselves to solving the underlying problem of accurate and simple manipulation of datetime in Python. For example, converting local timezone to another, formatting dates to human-readable forms, or performing arithmetic on datetime objects are all achieved easily using Maya.
Technology Stack:
Maya is written in Python and uses the Pendulum library to perform some tasks. Pendulum is a powerful Python package for datetime manipulations. It provides classes that are drop-in replacements for the native Python datetime classes, while also offering more functionality and ease of use.
Project Structure and Architecture:
On a high level, the Maya project is structured around the core module maya, which provides the primary functionality. Datetime objects in Maya are represented by instances of the maya.MayaDT class. Maya also includes a maya.core module, for the core functionality, and a maya.chain module, which allows calling multiple methods in a single operation.
