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The main purpose of this package is to provide more complex arithmetic operations on dates/times. Heavy use is made of the relativedelta type from Labix's dateutil library. Much of this package is just a light wrapper on top of this with some added features such as range generation and business day calculation.
You should install dateutils with pip:
pip install dateutils
Otherwise, you'll have to download the package and run:
python setup.py install
If you install it this way then you will also have to install all necessary dependencies manually.
FAQs
Various utilities for working with date and datetime objects
We found that dateutils demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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