Using the Calendar Assistant in inmydata

The Calendar Assistant in inmydata provides programmatic access to your organization’s financial calendar. It lets you map any date to standard financial periods like year, quarter, month, and week—based on your configured inmydata calendar.

This is especially useful for automation, reporting, and analytics workflows where aligning data with business time periods is critical.

Prerequisites

Before using the Calendar Assistant, make sure:

• You’ve set up your .env file with the following variables:

  • INMYDATA_TENANT

  • INMYDATA_CALENDAR

• You’ve installed the inmydata Python package and python-dotenv:

  bash
  pip install inmydata python-dotenv
  

Example: Working with Financial Periods

The example below demonstrates how to:

• Initialize the Calendar Assistant

• Get today's financial year, quarter, month, and week

• List the active financial periods for today

import os

from datetime import date
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from inmydata.CalendarAssistant import CalendarAssistant

load_dotenv()

# Get today's date
today = date.today()

# Initialize the Calendar Assistant with tenant and calendar name
assistant = CalendarAssistant(os.environ['INMYDATA_TENANT'], os.environ['INMYDATA_CALENDAR'])

# Get the current financial year
print("The current financial year is:  " + str(assistant.get_financial_year(today)))
# Get the current financial quarter
print("The current financial quarter is: " + str(assistant.get_quarter(today)))
# Get the current financial month
print("The current financial month is: " + str(assistant.get_month(today)))
# Get the current financial week
print("The current financial week is: " + str(assistant.get_week_number(today)))
# Get the current financial periods
print("The current periods are:")
print(assistant.get_financial_periods(today))

What Are Financial Periods?

Financial periods are defined in your inmydata calendar and can include:

• Financial Year (e.g. FY24)

• Quarter (e.g. Q3)

• Month (e.g. Apr-24)

• Week Number (e.g. W12)

• Custom periods configured by your organization

? All functions in the CalendarAssistant take a datetime.date object and return integers or structured data representing the corresponding period.

When to Use This

• Embedding calendar-aware logic in automation scripts

• Aligning user inputs or system dates with business reporting periods

• Simplifying date-to-period translation for dashboards or agents