python-pendulum/pendulum

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Pendulum is a Python library that provides a cleaner, more intuitive API for working with dates, times, and timezones as a drop-in replacement for the standard datetime class. It offers timezone-aware datetimes by default, easy arithmetic, and human-readable duration formatting.

Use cases

• work with datetimes and timezones in python
• convert timestamps between timezones
• format durations in human-readable words
• handle daylight saving time transitions correctly
• replace python datetime with a better api
• add or subtract days and weeks from dates

When to choose

• you need timezone-aware datetimes with correct DST handling
• you want a drop-in replacement for datetime with a friendlier API
• you need human-readable diffs like '2 minutes ago'

When to avoid

• you only need basic datetime features already covered by the standard library
• your code passes datetimes to libraries that check types with type(), like sqlite3 or PyMySQL

Facets

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date-time internationalization developer-tools cross-platform python cross-platform datetime timezone human-readable-durations drop-in-replacement

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