About
Overview
Ethiopia has its own ancient calendar based on the system called Bahire Hasab - ባሕረ ሃሳብ which means the Sea of Ideas. Bahire 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 Bahire 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.
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 Bahire 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:
from bahire_hasab import BahireHasab
# Create a Bahire Hasab instance
bh = BahireHasab(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.