12 July 2017 is a holiday in UK about python-holidays HOT 10 CLOSED

>>> holidays.UK()[datetime.date.today()]
'Battle of the Boyne [Northern Ireland]'

However, it seems to concern only Northern Ireland.

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Thanks for the explanation. Is there a "UK Bank Holiday" equivalent?

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There's quite a few which are only for Northern Ireland or Scotland. I think all the England and Wales ones are also holidays in NI and Scotland.

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

Perhaps the home nations should be added for the UK as "Provinces/States Available"?

https://github.com/ryanss/python-holidays#available-countries

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From the code, it seems like that by design. Not really sure if it's correct or not anyway! What do you think?

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Use holidays.England() for UK Bank Holidays. I've checked this against https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

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This is a bug.

This particular holiday should only be in holidays.NorthernIreland().

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Or rather, this is by design.

>>> import holidays
>>> for date, name in sorted(holidays.UK(years=2018).items()):
...     print(date, name)
...
2018-01-01 New Year's Day
2018-01-02 New Year Holiday [Scotland]
2018-03-30 Good Friday
2018-04-02 Easter Monday [England, Wales, Northern Ireland]
2018-05-07 May Day
2018-05-28 Spring Bank Holiday
2018-08-06 Summer Bank Holiday [Scotland]
2018-08-27 Late Summer Bank Holiday [England, Wales, Northern Ireland]
2018-11-30 St. Andrew's Day [Scotland]
2018-12-25 Christmas Day
2018-12-26 Boxing Day
>>>

See https://github.com/dr-prodigy/python-holidays/issues/40 for details.

If the holiday has square brackets, you'll need to check the country you're interested in is mentioned.

Or you can check holidays.England() or whichever ones you're interested in.

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@hugovk : how should we manage this?

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Well, at the moment it is working as designed, as detailed in #40.

If that's fine for everyone then this can be closed.

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Okay, that's what I wanted to hear.. ;)
Thx mate!

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