Categories constants

holidays/categories.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#  python-holidays
+#  ---------------
+#  A fast, efficient Python library for generating country, province and state
+#  specific sets of holidays on the fly. It aims to make determining whether a
+#  specific date is a holiday as fast and flexible as possible.
+#
+#  Authors: dr-prodigy <dr.prodigy.github@gmail.com> (c) 2017-2023
+#           ryanss <ryanssdev@icloud.com> (c) 2014-2017
+#  Website: https://github.com/dr-prodigy/python-holidays
+#  License: MIT (see LICENSE file)
+
+#  Supported holiday categories constants
+BANK_HOLIDAYS = "BANK"
+EXTENDED_HOLIDAYS = "EXTENDED"
+GOVERNMENT_HOLIDAYS = "GOVERNMENT"
+HALF_DAY_HOLIDAYS = "HALF-DAY"
+PUBLIC_HOLIDAYS = "PUBLIC"
+SCHOOL_HOLIDAYS = "SCHOOL"
+
+CHINESE_HOLIDAYS = "CHINESE"
+CHRISTIAN_HOLIDAYS = "CHRISTIAN"
+HINDU_HOLIDAYS = "HINDU"
+ISLAMIC_HOLIDAYS = "ISLAMIC"
+JEWISH_HOLIDAYS = "JEWISH"

holidays/countries/austria.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 from gettext import gettext as tr
 
+from holidays.categories import BANK_HOLIDAYS, PUBLIC_HOLIDAYS
 from holidays.constants import OCT, NOV
 from holidays.holiday_base import HolidayBase
 from holidays.holiday_groups import ChristianHolidays, InternationalHolidays
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@
 class Austria(HolidayBase, ChristianHolidays, InternationalHolidays):
     country = "AT"
     default_language = "de"
-    supported_categories = ("bank", "public")
+    supported_categories = (BANK_HOLIDAYS, PUBLIC_HOLIDAYS)
     supported_languages = ("de", "en_US", "uk")
     subdivisions = ("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9")
 

holidays/holiday_base.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 from dateutil.parser import parse
 
+from holidays.categories import PUBLIC_HOLIDAYS
 from holidays.constants import HOLIDAY_NAME_DELIMITER, MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN
 from holidays.helpers import _normalize_tuple
 
@@ -270,7 +271,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.language = language.lower() if language else None
         self.observed = observed
         self.subdiv = subdiv or prov or state
-        self.categories = categories or ("public",)
+        self.categories = categories or (PUBLIC_HOLIDAYS,)
 
         self.tr = gettext  # Default translation method.