Django-seasons is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.
A simple Django app that adds a set of templatetags that produce colored coded Season tags based on date.
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django-seasons provides a set of template tags to add color coded Season tags to any date in a template. The seasons are stored in the database. This requires you to run a ./manage.py syncdb upaon installation.
Configurable season parameters are name, color to use, start date, end date, and about text. The can be configured in the django backend.
Additionally a set of predifined season are available in defualts.py. These are the Northern Hemisphere four seasons, Summer, Spring, Winter, and Fall. They start and stop on the soltices and equinoxes.
**** INSTALLATION *****
Download django-seasons
Copy the seasons folder to you django project folder (where your other apps are).
In settings.py add 'seasons' to your INSTALLED_APPS list.
Run a ./manage.py syncdb to add the table seasons-season to the database.
[Optional] Load the defaults seasons. In the django python shell run: from seasons.defualts import * load_seasons()
*** USAGE ****
In the template you intent to use the seasons templatetags add {% load season_tags %} near the top.
Then for any date you want the season of use the templatetag get_season. e.g. If 'entry_date' is a datetime object I can use {{ entry_date|get_season }}. This will render a color coded season tag on the page.