Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2684
File: holidays/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/SM.po:13-13
Timestamp: 2025-06-28T10:39:19.185Z
Learning: In the holidays project, .po file header comments use the format "# [Country] holidays." for default language files (without trailing hash) and "# [Country] holidays [locale] localization." for non-default language files (also without trailing hash).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2259
File: holidays/locale/en_IN/LC_MESSAGES/IN.po:285-299
Timestamp: 2025-03-08T11:28:48.652Z
Learning: In the holidays project, message IDs (msgids) in locale files use region-specific naming conventions (e.g., "Muharram", "Id-ul-Fitr" in en_IN locale for India), while translator comments use internationally recognized names from the project's default locale (en_US) such as "Ashura", "Eid al-Fitr". This difference is intentional for proper localization.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2438
File: holidays/locale/ar_IQ/LC_MESSAGES/IQ.po:35-81
Timestamp: 2025-04-17T17:08:48.082Z
Learning: In holiday PO files, when the file represents the default language of an entity (e.g., ar_IQ for Iraq), no translations in `msgstr` are required as the `msgid` values are already in the target language.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:28-101
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T13:33:31.598Z
Learning: In the holidays library, for localization files of the default language (like French for Ivory Coast in fr/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po), the best practice is to leave the message strings (msgstr) empty to avoid possible typos, since the message IDs (msgid) are already in the target language.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2601
File: holidays/locale/en_MN/LC_MESSAGES/MN.po:13-14
Timestamp: 2025-06-11T18:32:25.595Z
Learning: For non-default locale `.po` files, the header comment format is:
`# <Country> holidays <locale> localization.` (no trailing hash).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2259
File: holidays/locale/en_IN/LC_MESSAGES/IN.po:30-299
Timestamp: 2025-03-05T17:51:00.633Z
Learning: In the Holidays project, .po files for a country's default locale use empty msgstr fields as a standard convention.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: holidays/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/AD.po:31-40
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T15:25:44.333Z
Learning: In the Holidays project, msgid fields in localization files contain strings in the entity's default language (as defined by default_language attribute), not English source strings as in standard gettext implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support consistently use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods (e.g., self._add_new_years_day(tr("Holiday Name"))). This is the established pattern across United States, Thailand, and other l10n-enabled countries, contrary to any suggestion that translation is handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2407
File: snapshots/countries/TL_COMMON.json:7-7
Timestamp: 2025-04-03T05:59:57.480Z
Learning: In the holidays project, snapshot files (like snapshots/countries/TL_COMMON.json) are auto-generated when running `make snapshot` and should not be manually edited. Semicolons (;) in holiday entries are used as separators when multiple holidays occur on the same date.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2465
File: holidays/countries/suriname.py:219-251
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T19:10:31.502Z
Learning: The `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes in this project contain only exact verified holiday dates from reliable sources, rather than calculated or estimated future dates. This is by design to ensure accuracy, particularly for religious holidays that may follow lunar calendars or depend on local observations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:146-159
Timestamp: 2025-03-19T16:54:58.657Z
Learning: In the holidays library implementation, explicit holiday dates (like Diwali in Fiji) are only defined for historical years with official sources (2016-2025). Future dates beyond the explicitly defined range are automatically calculated by methods like `_add_diwali`, which provide approximations when official dates aren't yet available.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2651
File: holidays/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/BQ.po:29-95
Timestamp: 2025-06-25T20:55:00.642Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Dutch locale files (.po) with `X-Source-Language: nl` should have empty msgstr entries when the target language is also Dutch. The library uses fallback=True with gettext, which returns the original msgid when msgstr is empty. This is the correct pattern for native language files and does not cause blank holiday names.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2402
File: holidays/locale/en_TT/LC_MESSAGES/TT.po:46-48
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T08:12:19.986Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization (PO) files follow this convention: comments (#.) always use American English (en_US) spelling, while the msgid content follows the locale-specific spelling standards of the target language.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/GN.po:31-83
Timestamp: 2025-03-31T20:25:12.808Z
Learning: In the holidays library, French (fr) is the default language for Guinea. This means that message IDs (msgid) in the PO files are already in French, and message strings (msgstr) in the French locale files can remain empty, as no translation is needed.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: tests/countries/test_andorra.py:23-28
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T21:07:11.577Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test methods for country holidays follow a standard form where year ranges are explicitly recreated in each test method rather than being stored as class variables, to maintain consistency across all country tests.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:52-64
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:47:27.213Z
Learning: For holiday tests in the vacanza/holidays project, structure tests by individual holidays rather than by years. Each test method should focus on a specific holiday and test it across multiple years (from start_year through 2050) using helper methods like `assertHolidayName`. For fixed holidays, use generators like `(f"{year}-01-01" for year in range(1991, 2051))`. For movable holidays, specify individual dates for specific years followed by a range check.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2614
File: holidays/countries/guyana.py:78-90
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T12:18:03.539Z
Learning: The holidays codebase now uses the constructor signature pattern `__init__(self, *args, islamic_show_estimated: bool = True, **kwargs)` across country classes.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2848
File: tests/countries/test_somalia.py:44-127
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T04:28:02.061Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holiday tests use `self.no_estimated_holidays = Country(years=years, islamic_show_estimated=False)` as the library-wide standard approach to simplify test cases. This pattern is intentional and preferred over testing estimated labels.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are properly covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both the regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: tests/countries/test_saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:162-178
Timestamp: 2025-07-02T18:17:53.342Z
Learning: In the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines holidays implementation, New Year's Day is added without observed rules using `_add_new_years_day()` and should not include observed rule testing in its test method. Only holidays explicitly wrapped with `_add_observed()` have observed behavior.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: tests/countries/test_nepal.py:499-536
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T06:49:06.217Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test files follow a dual testing approach: individual methods test specific holidays across multiple years, while comprehensive year-specific tests (e.g., `test_2025`) verify all holidays for a specific year in a single assertion. Both approaches serve different testing purposes and complement each other.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:31-49
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:50:40.752Z
Learning: For Turkmenistan holiday tests, use this class structure: `class TestTurkmenistan(CommonCountryTests, TestCase)` with imports `from unittest import TestCase`, `from holidays.countries import Turkmenistan, TM, TKM`, and `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests`. Ensure to call `super().setUp()` in the setUp method.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` or `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass, years=...)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature that matches the CommonCountryTests.setUpClass method which accepts test_class as the first parameter after cls. Pylint warnings about parameter count mismatch are false positives when comparing against TestCase.setUpClass instead of the immediate parent CommonCountryTests.setUpClass.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:85-86
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:29:38.042Z
Learning: For testing holiday implementations in the vacanza/holidays repository, recommend using `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests` as the base class instead of directly using `unittest.TestCase` to maintain consistency with project conventions and leverage common test utilities.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature used across all country test files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2623
File: tests/countries/test_christmas_island.py:136-146
Timestamp: 2025-07-09T21:16:35.145Z
Learning: In Christmas Island's holiday implementation, the test_christmas_day method cannot use assertNoNonObservedHoliday because in some years observed Christmas Day overlaps with Boxing Day when both holidays are moved due to weekend conflicts, causing the standard non-observed holiday check to fail inappropriately.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: tests/countries/test_finland.py:23-26
Timestamp: 2025-05-09T18:36:09.607Z
Learning: The holidays project prioritizes complete historical coverage in tests, verifying holidays from their first year of observance (e.g., 1853 for Finland) through future projections, rather than using shorter sliding windows.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2794
File: tests/calendars/test_julian.py:35-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-12T17:16:54.497Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays project calendar tests (Thai, Ethiopian, Julian, etc.), the established testing pattern for validation methods is to use simple for loops like `for year in known_data_dict:` followed by `self.assertEqual(expected, actual)` without using unittest's subTest feature. This pattern is consistently maintained across all calendar test files.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:15-16
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T05:56:33.276Z
Learning: In the holidays library, when importing Gregorian month constants from holidays.calendars.gregorian, only import the months that are actually used in the date data. For example, if Islamic holiday dates only reference JUN, JUL, SEP, OCT, then only import those specific constants rather than importing additional unused months.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:171-184
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:14.456Z
Learning: In the holidays library, `_CustomIslamicHolidays` subclasses follow a consistent pattern of NOT having docstrings. They go directly to defining date dictionaries, as evidenced by Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and dozens of other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:144-169
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:18.382Z
Learning: Custom holiday classes that extend _CustomHinduHolidays, _CustomIslamicHolidays, _CustomBuddhistHolidays, etc. in the holidays library do not use docstrings. They follow a pattern of using only inline comments above date dictionaries, as seen in Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and other country implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2706
File: holidays/countries/cayman_islands.py:50-55
Timestamp: 2025-07-10T15:55:34.523Z
Learning: The `islamic_show_estimated` parameter in country class constructors is only needed for countries that implement Islamic holidays (inherit from IslamicHolidays or _CustomIslamicHolidays groups). Countries with only Christian and secular holidays do not need this parameter.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: tests/common.py:365-372
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:29:47.753Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with Islamic holidays inherit directly from the IslamicHolidays class (e.g., `class Afghanistan(HolidayBase, InternationalHolidays, IslamicHolidays)`). The separate `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes (like `AfghanistanIslamicHolidays`) are helper classes for specific date data, not the main country classes. Therefore, `isinstance(holidays_instance, IslamicHolidays)` is sufficient to detect all countries with Islamic holidays.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations (confirmed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other countries).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:52-60
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:42:13.152Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes follow a consistent initialization pattern: first explicitly initializing each parent holiday group class with their specific parameters, then calling `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` at the end to properly initialize the base `HolidayBase` class.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:29-34
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T17:55:09.799Z
Learning: In the holidays library, classes with multiple inheritance from various holiday groups (like ChristianHolidays, HinduCalendarHolidays, etc.) should initialize each parent class separately rather than using `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` because the parent classes have different parameter requirements. HolidayBase should receive the `*args, **kwargs` while other holiday group classes typically don't accept parameters like `observed`.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:185-188
Timestamp: 2025-03-19T16:53:00.375Z
Learning: In the Fiji holidays implementation, the `special_public_holidays_observed` dictionary in `FijiStaticHolidays` is only used for exceptions to the normal observance rules, not for documenting all holidays. Only 2019's Constitution Day needed a special entry as it didn't follow the standard patterns.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2684
File: holidays/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/SM.po:13-13
Timestamp: 2025-06-28T10:39:19.185Z
Learning: In the holidays project, .po file header comments use the format "# [Country] holidays." for default language files (without trailing hash) and "# [Country] holidays [locale] localization." for non-default language files (also without trailing hash).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2259
File: holidays/locale/en_IN/LC_MESSAGES/IN.po:285-299
Timestamp: 2025-03-08T11:28:48.652Z
Learning: In the holidays project, message IDs (msgids) in locale files use region-specific naming conventions (e.g., "Muharram", "Id-ul-Fitr" in en_IN locale for India), while translator comments use internationally recognized names from the project's default locale (en_US) such as "Ashura", "Eid al-Fitr". This difference is intentional for proper localization.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2438
File: holidays/locale/ar_IQ/LC_MESSAGES/IQ.po:35-81
Timestamp: 2025-04-17T17:08:48.082Z
Learning: In holiday PO files, when the file represents the default language of an entity (e.g., ar_IQ for Iraq), no translations in `msgstr` are required as the `msgid` values are already in the target language.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:28-101
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T13:33:31.598Z
Learning: In the holidays library, for localization files of the default language (like French for Ivory Coast in fr/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po), the best practice is to leave the message strings (msgstr) empty to avoid possible typos, since the message IDs (msgid) are already in the target language.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2601
File: holidays/locale/en_MN/LC_MESSAGES/MN.po:13-14
Timestamp: 2025-06-11T18:32:25.595Z
Learning: For non-default locale `.po` files, the header comment format is:
`# <Country> holidays <locale> localization.` (no trailing hash).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/burkina_faso.py:27-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:24:41.827Z
Learning: Countries in the holidays library that don't have localization support yet should use plain English strings for labels (e.g., `estimated_label = "%s (estimated)"`), while only countries with existing .po translation files should use `tr()` wrapping. Check for the presence of .po files in holidays/locale to determine if a country has localization support.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2834
File: holidays/financial/national_stock_exchange_of_india.py:38-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T20:10:05.288Z
Learning: For National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) holidays implementation, only `estimated_label = tr("%s (estimated)")` is needed for localization support. The `observed_label` and `observed_estimated_label` are not required for this financial market holidays implementation.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support consistently use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods (e.g., self._add_new_years_day(tr("Holiday Name"))). This is the established pattern across United States, Thailand, and other l10n-enabled countries, contrary to any suggestion that translation is handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: holidays/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/AD.po:31-40
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T15:25:44.333Z
Learning: In the Holidays project, msgid fields in localization files contain strings in the entity's default language (as defined by default_language attribute), not English source strings as in standard gettext implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2259
File: holidays/locale/en_IN/LC_MESSAGES/IN.po:30-299
Timestamp: 2025-03-05T17:51:00.633Z
Learning: In the Holidays project, .po files for a country's default locale use empty msgstr fields as a standard convention.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support DO use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods. This is the correct pattern for l10n-enabled country implementations, contrary to previous learning about translation being handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2614
File: holidays/countries/guyana.py:78-90
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T12:18:03.539Z
Learning: The holidays codebase now uses the constructor signature pattern `__init__(self, *args, islamic_show_estimated: bool = True, **kwargs)` across country classes.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:31-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:27:54.605Z
Learning: In Nigerian holiday legislation: The Public Holidays Decree 1979 is the foundational document that established official holiday names (including Oct 1). The 1984 amendment only added Workers' Day. The 2004 consolidated version maintained existing holiday names without changes. When documenting Nigerian holidays, prioritize the 1979 decree for original holiday definitions, with later documents as amendments/consolidations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding comments for year-restricted holidays in Uganda and similar country modules, include specific legal or historical context such as the actual laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions that established the holidays, rather than just generic "since YEAR" information. For example, reference the specific Parliament act, decree, or historical event that created the holiday.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding contextual comments about holiday establishment dates, avoid making claims about specific laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions unless they can be verified from authoritative sources like official government legal databases, gazettes, or parliamentary records. Unverified legal claims should not be added to comments even if they seem plausible.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: For Nigerian holidays, the 1985 Amendment is the authoritative source for Workers' Day addition to national public holidays, superseding any earlier state-level or workday category observances.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: Workers' Day in Nigeria became a national public holiday starting from 1985 based on the Public Holidays (Amendment) Decree 1984. Earlier observances at state level (e.g., Kano State in 1980) or potential workday status do not constitute national public holiday status.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:140-155
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T06:52:25.511Z
Learning: In the holidays library Islamic calendar implementation, CONFIRMED_YEARS represents the full range of years that have been officially verified, while the individual EID_AL_FITR_DATES and EID_AL_ADHA_DATES dictionaries only contain entries for years where the official dates differ from the base Umm al-Qura algorithmic calculations. Years within CONFIRMED_YEARS but not in the explicit date dictionaries will use the base algorithm but be marked as "confirmed" rather than "estimated".

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are properly covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both the regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2720
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-07-17T11:07:04.986Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the holidays library by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2848
File: tests/countries/test_somalia.py:44-127
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T04:28:02.061Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holiday tests use `self.no_estimated_holidays = Country(years=years, islamic_show_estimated=False)` as the library-wide standard approach to simplify test cases. This pattern is intentional and preferred over testing estimated labels.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2635
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T12:59:53.286Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the COUNTRIES dictionary by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2763
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-08T10:33:55.695Z
Learning: When verifying the country total in holidays/registry.py, isolate between '^COUNTRIES:' and '^FINANCIAL:' and count only lines matching the strict key pattern '^\s*"[a-z0-9_ ]+":\s*\(' to avoid overcounting non-entry quoted lines. As of PR vacanza/holidays#2763, this yields 227 entries.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2777
File: holidays/countries/gambia.py:120-122
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T13:48:11.910Z
Learning: When reviewing holiday implementations in the holidays library, defer to the maintainers' choice of start years for specific holiday policies, as they likely have access to more reliable primary sources and official documentation than what can be found through web searches.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py:127-128
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:22:11.939Z
Learning: The IvoryCoast class in holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py already includes documentation in its class docstring explaining the "day after" naming convention for Islamic holidays, noting that in the Islamic calendar, days begin at sunset and the "day after" refers to daylight hours following the night of celebration.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:32:15.760Z
Learning: In the holidays package, detailed historical context and additional information should be added as comments at the method level or above conditional blocks, while comments directly above tr() function calls should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.").

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:144-169
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:18.382Z
Learning: Custom holiday classes that extend _CustomHinduHolidays, _CustomIslamicHolidays, _CustomBuddhistHolidays, etc. in the holidays library do not use docstrings. They follow a pattern of using only inline comments above date dictionaries, as seen in Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:171-184
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:14.456Z
Learning: In the holidays library, `_CustomIslamicHolidays` subclasses follow a consistent pattern of NOT having docstrings. They go directly to defining date dictionaries, as evidenced by Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and dozens of other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2632
File: holidays/countries/solomon_islands.py:95-98
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T12:28:31.641Z
Learning: Library-wide holiday patterns and their optimizations should be handled at the base class level (like InternationalHolidays) rather than documenting workarounds in individual country modules. This maintains separation of concerns and avoids documentation duplication.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/groups/eastern.py:36-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T02:34:11.625Z
Learning: The default estimated_label change from "%s (estimated)" to "%s" in holidays/groups/eastern.py is intentional to remove English-only fallback text from localized holiday names. Countries that need estimated labels should define them properly with localization support rather than relying on the English fallback.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:13-13
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:51:16.449Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes with localization support consistently use `from gettext import gettext as tr` import and wrap class-level attributes like `estimated_label`, `observed_label`, and `observed_estimated_label` with `tr()` calls. This is the standard library-wide practice for l10n-enabled entities and is required for proper string extraction when generating .po files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/gabon.py:30-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T11:45:56.847Z
Learning: In the holidays library, maintainers have agreed to keep comments like "# %s (estimated)." above estimated_label declarations across country files, even though they duplicate the label content. This decision was made to maintain consistency and usefulness regardless of localization support status.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:266-284
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:41:56.613Z
Learning: The Islamic holiday dates in the holidays library should only include officially verified dates, not predicted ones, to maintain accuracy. This is especially important for holidays that depend on lunar observations like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:36:15.300Z
Learning: In South Sudan holidays implementation, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays should use the ISLAMIC category system. The first day of each Eid is a national public holiday (appears in both PUBLIC and ISLAMIC categories), while additional days are typically Muslim-specific and should only appear in the ISLAMIC category through the _populate_islamic_holidays() method.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2850
File: holidays/countries/christmas_island.py:75-80
Timestamp: 2025-08-22T19:06:04.303Z
Learning: Christmas Island's docstring for the `islamic_show_estimated` parameter follows the exact same format used consistently across all countries with Islamic holidays in the codebase: "Whether to add 'estimated' label to Islamic holidays name if holiday date is estimated." This is the standard, established pattern and should not be changed.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2465
File: holidays/countries/suriname.py:219-251
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T19:10:31.502Z
Learning: The `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes in this project contain only exact verified holiday dates from reliable sources, rather than calculated or estimated future dates. This is by design to ensure accuracy, particularly for religious holidays that may follow lunar calendars or depend on local observations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:15-16
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T05:56:33.276Z
Learning: In the holidays library, when importing Gregorian month constants from holidays.calendars.gregorian, only import the months that are actually used in the date data. For example, if Islamic holiday dates only reference JUN, JUL, SEP, OCT, then only import those specific constants rather than importing additional unused months.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2706
File: holidays/countries/cayman_islands.py:50-55
Timestamp: 2025-07-10T15:55:34.523Z
Learning: The `islamic_show_estimated` parameter in country class constructors is only needed for countries that implement Islamic holidays (inherit from IslamicHolidays or _CustomIslamicHolidays groups). Countries with only Christian and secular holidays do not need this parameter.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: tests/common.py:365-372
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:29:47.753Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with Islamic holidays inherit directly from the IslamicHolidays class (e.g., `class Afghanistan(HolidayBase, InternationalHolidays, IslamicHolidays)`). The separate `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes (like `AfghanistanIslamicHolidays`) are helper classes for specific date data, not the main country classes. Therefore, `isinstance(holidays_instance, IslamicHolidays)` is sufficient to detect all countries with Islamic holidays.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations (confirmed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other countries).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:52-60
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:42:13.152Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes follow a consistent initialization pattern: first explicitly initializing each parent holiday group class with their specific parameters, then calling `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` at the end to properly initialize the base `HolidayBase` class.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:29-34
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T17:55:09.799Z
Learning: In the holidays library, classes with multiple inheritance from various holiday groups (like ChristianHolidays, HinduCalendarHolidays, etc.) should initialize each parent class separately rather than using `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` because the parent classes have different parameter requirements. HolidayBase should receive the `*args, **kwargs` while other holiday group classes typically don't accept parameters like `observed`.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:185-188
Timestamp: 2025-03-19T16:53:00.375Z
Learning: In the Fiji holidays implementation, the `special_public_holidays_observed` dictionary in `FijiStaticHolidays` is only used for exceptions to the normal observance rules, not for documenting all holidays. Only 2019's Constitution Day needed a special entry as it didn't follow the standard patterns.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2651
File: holidays/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/BQ.po:29-95
Timestamp: 2025-06-25T20:55:00.642Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Dutch locale files (.po) with `X-Source-Language: nl` should have empty msgstr entries when the target language is also Dutch. The library uses fallback=True with gettext, which returns the original msgid when msgstr is empty. This is the correct pattern for native language files and does not cause blank holiday names.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2402
File: holidays/locale/en_TT/LC_MESSAGES/TT.po:46-48
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T08:12:19.986Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization (PO) files follow this convention: comments (#.) always use American English (en_US) spelling, while the msgid content follows the locale-specific spelling standards of the target language.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: tests/countries/test_andorra.py:23-28
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T21:07:11.577Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test methods for country holidays follow a standard form where year ranges are explicitly recreated in each test method rather than being stored as class variables, to maintain consistency across all country tests.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:52-64
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:47:27.213Z
Learning: For holiday tests in the vacanza/holidays project, structure tests by individual holidays rather than by years. Each test method should focus on a specific holiday and test it across multiple years (from start_year through 2050) using helper methods like `assertHolidayName`. For fixed holidays, use generators like `(f"{year}-01-01" for year in range(1991, 2051))`. For movable holidays, specify individual dates for specific years followed by a range check.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: tests/countries/test_saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:162-178
Timestamp: 2025-07-02T18:17:53.342Z
Learning: In the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines holidays implementation, New Year's Day is added without observed rules using `_add_new_years_day()` and should not include observed rule testing in its test method. Only holidays explicitly wrapped with `_add_observed()` have observed behavior.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: tests/countries/test_nepal.py:499-536
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T06:49:06.217Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test files follow a dual testing approach: individual methods test specific holidays across multiple years, while comprehensive year-specific tests (e.g., `test_2025`) verify all holidays for a specific year in a single assertion. Both approaches serve different testing purposes and complement each other.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2834
File: tests/financial/test_national_stock_exchange_of_india.py:342-360
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T12:52:58.513Z
Learning: In the NSE holidays implementation, assertLocalizedHolidays should only include holidays that are actually observed (trading holidays), not holidays that fall on weekends and are excluded by the observed_rule. For example, Eid al-Fitr 2023 falls on Saturday and is correctly excluded from localization tests.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2623
File: tests/countries/test_christmas_island.py:136-146
Timestamp: 2025-07-09T21:16:35.145Z
Learning: In Christmas Island's holiday implementation, the test_christmas_day method cannot use assertNoNonObservedHoliday because in some years observed Christmas Day overlaps with Boxing Day when both holidays are moved due to weekend conflicts, causing the standard non-observed holiday check to fail inappropriately.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2869
File: tests/countries/test_bosnia_and_herzegovina.py:233-237
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T12:20:40.589Z
Learning: In Bosnia and Herzegovina's holiday implementation, 2022-05-03 serves as both an observed Labor Day and the second day of Eid al-Fitr, creating holiday overlaps that need to be considered when testing observed dates.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: tests/countries/test_nigeria.py:35-40
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:31:58.710Z
Learning: 2010-05-06 was declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Federal Government as a day of mourning for President Umaru Yar'Adua who died on May 5, 2010. It was not an election holiday but a mourning day.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: tests/countries/test_nigeria.py:35-40
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:31:58.711Z
Learning: 2025-07-15 was declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Federal Government as a day of mourning for former President Muhammadu Buhari who died on July 13, 2025. It was not an election holiday but a mourning day.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2750
File: tests/countries/test_germany.py:46-46
Timestamp: 2025-07-24T15:21:31.632Z
Learning: In the holidays project test files, the standard method name for testing the absence of holidays is `test_no_holidays`, not more descriptive names like `test_no_holidays_before_1990`. This is a consistent naming convention across country test files like France and Germany.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:14:40.340Z
Learning: In South Sudan, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays have variable observance patterns determined by yearly Ministry of Labour circulars. The first day of each Eid is consistently a national public holiday for everyone, while additional days (2nd, 3rd) may be either Muslim-specific or general public holidays depending on the government's annual announcement.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:39:52.024Z
Learning: In South Sudan holidays implementation, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha follow a specific two-day pattern: the first day of each Eid is a PUBLIC holiday (national holiday for everyone), while the second day is an ISLAMIC category holiday (Muslim-specific only). This should be implemented by keeping first day calls in _populate_public_holidays() and adding second day calls in _populate_islamic_holidays() method.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2583
File: holidays/countries/niger.py:137-143
Timestamp: 2025-06-02T18:37:10.923Z
Learning: In Niger's holiday implementation, Eid al-Adha (Tabaski) doesn't require observed holiday handling because it's followed by "Day after Eid al-Adha" (Lendemain de la Tabaski) as a consecutive holiday. If Eid al-Adha falls on Sunday, there's no need to move it to Monday since Monday is already the second holiday.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2821
File: holidays/countries/tanzania.py:145-163
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T09:43:38.329Z
Learning: In the Tanzania holidays implementation, when multiple holidays fall on the same date (like Eid al-Fitr and Mwalimu Nyerere Day on 2007-10-14), the observed rule logic correctly applies to all holidays on that date. The SAT_SUN_TO_NEXT_MON_TUE rule for the first Eid day doesn't create issues with co-occurring holidays because in practice, such collisions occur on Sundays where both SAT_SUN_TO_NEXT_MON and SAT_SUN_TO_NEXT_MON_TUE rules yield identical results (both move to Monday).

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` or `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass, years=...)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature that matches the CommonCountryTests.setUpClass method which accepts test_class as the first parameter after cls. Pylint warnings about parameter count mismatch are false positives when comparing against TestCase.setUpClass instead of the immediate parent CommonCountryTests.setUpClass.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2609
File: tests/countries/test_nauru.py:20-24
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T15:15:25.159Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays test suite, overriding `setUpClass` is intentionally done with the single `cls` parameter (no *args/**kwargs), so signature-mismatch lint warnings are ignored project-wide.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature used across all country test files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2829
File: tests/countries/test_canada.py:291-296
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T19:47:21.735Z
Learning: In the holidays library, HolidayBase objects automatically populate years on-demand when expand=True (the default). When checking dates from years not initially in the years range, those years are automatically populated via the logic at line 646 in holiday_base.py: "if self.expand and dt.year not in self.years:". This means tests can check dates outside the initial year range without needing separate holiday instances.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: holidays/countries/french_southern_territories.py:41-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T10:07:58.780Z
Learning: Territorial holiday classes that inherit from parent countries (like HolidaysAX from Finland, HolidaysSJ from Norway, HolidaysTF from France) follow a standard pattern of silently overriding self.subdiv in their _populate_public_holidays() method without validation, as this ensures they always use the correct subdivision code for their territory regardless of user input.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2489
File: holidays/countries/sao_tome_and_principe.py:22-26
Timestamp: 2025-04-23T14:55:35.504Z
Learning: References in holidays classes should only be included if they're used for test case cross-checks or provide historical context about when holidays were added/removed, not just for the sake of having more references.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T21:00:47.849Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holidays use dedicated methods for additional days (like `_add_eid_al_fitr_day_two`, `_add_eid_al_adha_day_two`) rather than parameters. The methods don't accept a `days` parameter - each day has its own specific method.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:31-49
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:50:40.752Z
Learning: For Turkmenistan holiday tests, use this class structure: `class TestTurkmenistan(CommonCountryTests, TestCase)` with imports `from unittest import TestCase`, `from holidays.countries import Turkmenistan, TM, TKM`, and `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests`. Ensure to call `super().setUp()` in the setUp method.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:85-86
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:29:38.042Z
Learning: For testing holiday implementations in the vacanza/holidays repository, recommend using `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests` as the base class instead of directly using `unittest.TestCase` to maintain consistency with project conventions and leverage common test utilities.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:52-64
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:33:53.254Z
Learning: For Turkmenistan holiday tests, recommend using CommonCountryTests as the base class rather than unittest.TestCase to follow project conventions, be consistent with other country test files, and gain access to common test utilities.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: tests/countries/test_finland.py:23-26
Timestamp: 2025-05-09T18:36:09.607Z
Learning: The holidays project prioritizes complete historical coverage in tests, verifying holidays from their first year of observance (e.g., 1853 for Finland) through future projections, rather than using shorter sliding windows.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2794
File: tests/calendars/test_julian.py:35-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-12T17:16:54.497Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays project calendar tests (Thai, Ethiopian, Julian, etc.), the established testing pattern for validation methods is to use simple for loops like `for year in known_data_dict:` followed by `self.assertEqual(expected, actual)` without using unittest's subTest feature. This pattern is consistently maintained across all calendar test files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py:127-128
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:22:11.939Z
Learning: The IvoryCoast class in holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py already includes documentation in its class docstring explaining the "day after" naming convention for Islamic holidays, noting that in the Islamic calendar, days begin at sunset and the "day after" refers to daylight hours following the night of celebration.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support consistently use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods (e.g., self._add_new_years_day(tr("Holiday Name"))). This is the established pattern across United States, Thailand, and other l10n-enabled countries, contrary to any suggestion that translation is handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2614
File: holidays/countries/guyana.py:78-90
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T12:18:03.539Z
Learning: The holidays codebase now uses the constructor signature pattern `__init__(self, *args, islamic_show_estimated: bool = True, **kwargs)` across country classes.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:31-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:27:54.605Z
Learning: In Nigerian holiday legislation: The Public Holidays Decree 1979 is the foundational document that established official holiday names (including Oct 1). The 1984 amendment only added Workers' Day. The 2004 consolidated version maintained existing holiday names without changes. When documenting Nigerian holidays, prioritize the 1979 decree for original holiday definitions, with later documents as amendments/consolidations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support DO use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods. This is the correct pattern for l10n-enabled country implementations, contrary to previous learning about translation being handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding comments for year-restricted holidays in Uganda and similar country modules, include specific legal or historical context such as the actual laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions that established the holidays, rather than just generic "since YEAR" information. For example, reference the specific Parliament act, decree, or historical event that created the holiday.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding contextual comments about holiday establishment dates, avoid making claims about specific laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions unless they can be verified from authoritative sources like official government legal databases, gazettes, or parliamentary records. Unverified legal claims should not be added to comments even if they seem plausible.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: For Nigerian holidays, the 1985 Amendment is the authoritative source for Workers' Day addition to national public holidays, superseding any earlier state-level or workday category observances.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: Workers' Day in Nigeria became a national public holiday starting from 1985 based on the Public Holidays (Amendment) Decree 1984. Earlier observances at state level (e.g., Kano State in 1980) or potential workday status do not constitute national public holiday status.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:140-155
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T06:52:25.511Z
Learning: In the holidays library Islamic calendar implementation, CONFIRMED_YEARS represents the full range of years that have been officially verified, while the individual EID_AL_FITR_DATES and EID_AL_ADHA_DATES dictionaries only contain entries for years where the official dates differ from the base Umm al-Qura algorithmic calculations. Years within CONFIRMED_YEARS but not in the explicit date dictionaries will use the base algorithm but be marked as "confirmed" rather than "estimated".

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are properly covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both the regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2720
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-07-17T11:07:04.986Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the holidays library by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2848
File: tests/countries/test_somalia.py:44-127
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T04:28:02.061Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holiday tests use `self.no_estimated_holidays = Country(years=years, islamic_show_estimated=False)` as the library-wide standard approach to simplify test cases. This pattern is intentional and preferred over testing estimated labels.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2635
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T12:59:53.286Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the COUNTRIES dictionary by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2763
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-08T10:33:55.695Z
Learning: When verifying the country total in holidays/registry.py, isolate between '^COUNTRIES:' and '^FINANCIAL:' and count only lines matching the strict key pattern '^\s*"[a-z0-9_ ]+":\s*\(' to avoid overcounting non-entry quoted lines. As of PR vacanza/holidays#2763, this yields 227 entries.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2777
File: holidays/countries/gambia.py:120-122
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T13:48:11.910Z
Learning: When reviewing holiday implementations in the holidays library, defer to the maintainers' choice of start years for specific holiday policies, as they likely have access to more reliable primary sources and official documentation than what can be found through web searches.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:32:15.760Z
Learning: In the holidays package, detailed historical context and additional information should be added as comments at the method level or above conditional blocks, while comments directly above tr() function calls should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.").

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:144-169
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:18.382Z
Learning: Custom holiday classes that extend _CustomHinduHolidays, _CustomIslamicHolidays, _CustomBuddhistHolidays, etc. in the holidays library do not use docstrings. They follow a pattern of using only inline comments above date dictionaries, as seen in Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:171-184
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:14.456Z
Learning: In the holidays library, `_CustomIslamicHolidays` subclasses follow a consistent pattern of NOT having docstrings. They go directly to defining date dictionaries, as evidenced by Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and dozens of other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2632
File: holidays/countries/solomon_islands.py:95-98
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T12:28:31.641Z
Learning: Library-wide holiday patterns and their optimizations should be handled at the base class level (like InternationalHolidays) rather than documenting workarounds in individual country modules. This maintains separation of concerns and avoids documentation duplication.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2834
File: holidays/financial/national_stock_exchange_of_india.py:38-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T20:10:05.288Z
Learning: For National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) holidays implementation, only `estimated_label = tr("%s (estimated)")` is needed for localization support. The `observed_label` and `observed_estimated_label` are not required for this financial market holidays implementation.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/groups/eastern.py:36-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T02:34:11.625Z
Learning: The default estimated_label change from "%s (estimated)" to "%s" in holidays/groups/eastern.py is intentional to remove English-only fallback text from localized holiday names. Countries that need estimated labels should define them properly with localization support rather than relying on the English fallback.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:13-13
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:51:16.449Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes with localization support consistently use `from gettext import gettext as tr` import and wrap class-level attributes like `estimated_label`, `observed_label`, and `observed_estimated_label` with `tr()` calls. This is the standard library-wide practice for l10n-enabled entities and is required for proper string extraction when generating .po files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/burkina_faso.py:27-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:24:41.827Z
Learning: Countries in the holidays library that don't have localization support yet should use plain English strings for labels (e.g., `estimated_label = "%s (estimated)"`), while only countries with existing .po translation files should use `tr()` wrapping. Check for the presence of .po files in holidays/locale to determine if a country has localization support.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/gabon.py:30-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T11:45:56.847Z
Learning: In the holidays library, maintainers have agreed to keep comments like "# %s (estimated)." above estimated_label declarations across country files, even though they duplicate the label content. This decision was made to maintain consistency and usefulness regardless of localization support status.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:266-284
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:41:56.613Z
Learning: The Islamic holiday dates in the holidays library should only include officially verified dates, not predicted ones, to maintain accuracy. This is especially important for holidays that depend on lunar observations like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:36:15.300Z
Learning: In South Sudan holidays implementation, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays should use the ISLAMIC category system. The first day of each Eid is a national public holiday (appears in both PUBLIC and ISLAMIC categories), while additional days are typically Muslim-specific and should only appear in the ISLAMIC category through the _populate_islamic_holidays() method.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2850
File: holidays/countries/christmas_island.py:75-80
Timestamp: 2025-08-22T19:06:04.303Z
Learning: Christmas Island's docstring for the `islamic_show_estimated` parameter follows the exact same format used consistently across all countries with Islamic holidays in the codebase: "Whether to add 'estimated' label to Islamic holidays name if holiday date is estimated." This is the standard, established pattern and should not be changed.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2465
File: holidays/countries/suriname.py:219-251
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T19:10:31.502Z
Learning: The `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes in this project contain only exact verified holiday dates from reliable sources, rather than calculated or estimated future dates. This is by design to ensure accuracy, particularly for religious holidays that may follow lunar calendars or depend on local observations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2794
File: holidays/groups/christian.py:328-343
Timestamp: 2025-08-11T10:14:28.517Z
Learning: For Ethiopian holidays in the `holidays/groups/christian.py` file, docstring wording should maintain source-accurate phrasing (e.g., "in coincidence of" for Ethiopian New Year/Enkutatash), even when it might read awkwardly in English, to ensure consistency with official Ethiopian documentation.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:15-16
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T05:56:33.276Z
Learning: In the holidays library, when importing Gregorian month constants from holidays.calendars.gregorian, only import the months that are actually used in the date data. For example, if Islamic holiday dates only reference JUN, JUL, SEP, OCT, then only import those specific constants rather than importing additional unused months.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2706
File: holidays/countries/cayman_islands.py:50-55
Timestamp: 2025-07-10T15:55:34.523Z
Learning: The `islamic_show_estimated` parameter in country class constructors is only needed for countries that implement Islamic holidays (inherit from IslamicHolidays or _CustomIslamicHolidays groups). Countries with only Christian and secular holidays do not need this parameter.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: tests/common.py:365-372
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:29:47.753Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with Islamic holidays inherit directly from the IslamicHolidays class (e.g., `class Afghanistan(HolidayBase, InternationalHolidays, IslamicHolidays)`). The separate `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes (like `AfghanistanIslamicHolidays`) are helper classes for specific date data, not the main country classes. Therefore, `isinstance(holidays_instance, IslamicHolidays)` is sufficient to detect all countries with Islamic holidays.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations (confirmed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other countries).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:52-60
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:42:13.152Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes follow a consistent initialization pattern: first explicitly initializing each parent holiday group class with their specific parameters, then calling `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` at the end to properly initialize the base `HolidayBase` class.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:29-34
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T17:55:09.799Z
Learning: In the holidays library, classes with multiple inheritance from various holiday groups (like ChristianHolidays, HinduCalendarHolidays, etc.) should initialize each parent class separately rather than using `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` because the parent classes have different parameter requirements. HolidayBase should receive the `*args, **kwargs` while other holiday group classes typically don't accept parameters like `observed`.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:185-188
Timestamp: 2025-03-19T16:53:00.375Z
Learning: In the Fiji holidays implementation, the `special_public_holidays_observed` dictionary in `FijiStaticHolidays` is only used for exceptions to the normal observance rules, not for documenting all holidays. Only 2019's Constitution Day needed a special entry as it didn't follow the standard patterns.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:52-64
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:47:27.213Z
Learning: For holiday tests in the vacanza/holidays project, structure tests by individual holidays rather than by years. Each test method should focus on a specific holiday and test it across multiple years (from start_year through 2050) using helper methods like `assertHolidayName`. For fixed holidays, use generators like `(f"{year}-01-01" for year in range(1991, 2051))`. For movable holidays, specify individual dates for specific years followed by a range check.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: tests/countries/test_andorra.py:23-28
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T21:07:11.577Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test methods for country holidays follow a standard form where year ranges are explicitly recreated in each test method rather than being stored as class variables, to maintain consistency across all country tests.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: tests/countries/test_nepal.py:499-536
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T06:49:06.217Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test files follow a dual testing approach: individual methods test specific holidays across multiple years, while comprehensive year-specific tests (e.g., `test_2025`) verify all holidays for a specific year in a single assertion. Both approaches serve different testing purposes and complement each other.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are properly covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both the regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: tests/countries/test_saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:162-178
Timestamp: 2025-07-02T18:17:53.342Z
Learning: In the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines holidays implementation, New Year's Day is added without observed rules using `_add_new_years_day()` and should not include observed rule testing in its test method. Only holidays explicitly wrapped with `_add_observed()` have observed behavior.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2750
File: tests/countries/test_germany.py:46-46
Timestamp: 2025-07-24T15:21:31.632Z
Learning: In the holidays project test files, the standard method name for testing the absence of holidays is `test_no_holidays`, not more descriptive names like `test_no_holidays_before_1990`. This is a consistent naming convention across country test files like France and Germany.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: tests/countries/test_finland.py:23-26
Timestamp: 2025-05-09T18:36:09.607Z
Learning: The holidays project prioritizes complete historical coverage in tests, verifying holidays from their first year of observance (e.g., 1853 for Finland) through future projections, rather than using shorter sliding windows.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_france.py:24-27
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T10:10:46.158Z
Learning: The holidays library prioritizes full test coverage over performance in test suites. Modern library-wide standards favor comprehensive testing across all subdivisions and wide year ranges (e.g., 1803-2050 for France) to ensure thorough validation, even if it creates many test objects.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2720
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-07-17T11:07:04.986Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the holidays library by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2635
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T12:59:53.286Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the COUNTRIES dictionary by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: For Nigerian holidays, the 1985 Amendment is the authoritative source for Workers' Day addition to national public holidays, superseding any earlier state-level or workday category observances.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: Workers' Day in Nigeria became a national public holiday starting from 1985 based on the Public Holidays (Amendment) Decree 1984. Earlier observances at state level (e.g., Kano State in 1980) or potential workday status do not constitute national public holiday status.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2834
File: tests/financial/test_national_stock_exchange_of_india.py:342-360
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T12:52:58.513Z
Learning: In the NSE holidays implementation, assertLocalizedHolidays should only include holidays that are actually observed (trading holidays), not holidays that fall on weekends and are excluded by the observed_rule. For example, Eid al-Fitr 2023 falls on Saturday and is correctly excluded from localization tests.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2623
File: tests/countries/test_christmas_island.py:136-146
Timestamp: 2025-07-09T21:16:35.145Z
Learning: In Christmas Island's holiday implementation, the test_christmas_day method cannot use assertNoNonObservedHoliday because in some years observed Christmas Day overlaps with Boxing Day when both holidays are moved due to weekend conflicts, causing the standard non-observed holiday check to fail inappropriately.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2869
File: tests/countries/test_bosnia_and_herzegovina.py:233-237
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T12:20:40.589Z
Learning: In Bosnia and Herzegovina's holiday implementation, 2022-05-03 serves as both an observed Labor Day and the second day of Eid al-Fitr, creating holiday overlaps that need to be considered when testing observed dates.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: tests/countries/test_nigeria.py:35-40
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:31:58.710Z
Learning: 2010-05-06 was declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Federal Government as a day of mourning for President Umaru Yar'Adua who died on May 5, 2010. It was not an election holiday but a mourning day.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: tests/countries/test_nigeria.py:35-40
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:31:58.711Z
Learning: 2025-07-15 was declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Federal Government as a day of mourning for former President Muhammadu Buhari who died on July 13, 2025. It was not an election holiday but a mourning day.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:31-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:27:54.605Z
Learning: In Nigerian holiday legislation: The Public Holidays Decree 1979 is the foundational document that established official holiday names (including Oct 1). The 1984 amendment only added Workers' Day. The 2004 consolidated version maintained existing holiday names without changes. When documenting Nigerian holidays, prioritize the 1979 decree for original holiday definitions, with later documents as amendments/consolidations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2848
File: tests/countries/test_somalia.py:44-127
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T04:28:02.061Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holiday tests use `self.no_estimated_holidays = Country(years=years, islamic_show_estimated=False)` as the library-wide standard approach to simplify test cases. This pattern is intentional and preferred over testing estimated labels.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding comments for year-restricted holidays in Uganda and similar country modules, include specific legal or historical context such as the actual laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions that established the holidays, rather than just generic "since YEAR" information. For example, reference the specific Parliament act, decree, or historical event that created the holiday.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2777
File: holidays/countries/gambia.py:120-122
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T13:48:11.910Z
Learning: When reviewing holiday implementations in the holidays library, defer to the maintainers' choice of start years for specific holiday policies, as they likely have access to more reliable primary sources and official documentation than what can be found through web searches.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:266-284
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:41:56.613Z
Learning: The Islamic holiday dates in the holidays library should only include officially verified dates, not predicted ones, to maintain accuracy. This is especially important for holidays that depend on lunar observations like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:14:40.340Z
Learning: In South Sudan, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays have variable observance patterns determined by yearly Ministry of Labour circulars. The first day of each Eid is consistently a national public holiday for everyone, while additional days (2nd, 3rd) may be either Muslim-specific or general public holidays depending on the government's annual announcement.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:39:52.024Z
Learning: In South Sudan holidays implementation, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha follow a specific two-day pattern: the first day of each Eid is a PUBLIC holiday (national holiday for everyone), while the second day is an ISLAMIC category holiday (Muslim-specific only). This should be implemented by keeping first day calls in _populate_public_holidays() and adding second day calls in _populate_islamic_holidays() method.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:36:15.300Z
Learning: In South Sudan holidays implementation, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays should use the ISLAMIC category system. The first day of each Eid is a national public holiday (appears in both PUBLIC and ISLAMIC categories), while additional days are typically Muslim-specific and should only appear in the ISLAMIC category through the _populate_islamic_holidays() method.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2583
File: holidays/countries/niger.py:137-143
Timestamp: 2025-06-02T18:37:10.923Z
Learning: In Niger's holiday implementation, Eid al-Adha (Tabaski) doesn't require observed holiday handling because it's followed by "Day after Eid al-Adha" (Lendemain de la Tabaski) as a consecutive holiday. If Eid al-Adha falls on Sunday, there's no need to move it to Monday since Monday is already the second holiday.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2821
File: holidays/countries/tanzania.py:145-163
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T09:43:38.329Z
Learning: In the Tanzania holidays implementation, when multiple holidays fall on the same date (like Eid al-Fitr and Mwalimu Nyerere Day on 2007-10-14), the observed rule logic correctly applies to all holidays on that date. The SAT_SUN_TO_NEXT_MON_TUE rule for the first Eid day doesn't create issues with co-occurring holidays because in practice, such collisions occur on Sundays where both SAT_SUN_TO_NEXT_MON and SAT_SUN_TO_NEXT_MON_TUE rules yield identical results (both move to Monday).

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` or `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass, years=...)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature that matches the CommonCountryTests.setUpClass method which accepts test_class as the first parameter after cls. Pylint warnings about parameter count mismatch are false positives when comparing against TestCase.setUpClass instead of the immediate parent CommonCountryTests.setUpClass.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2609
File: tests/countries/test_nauru.py:20-24
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T15:15:25.159Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays test suite, overriding `setUpClass` is intentionally done with the single `cls` parameter (no *args/**kwargs), so signature-mismatch lint warnings are ignored project-wide.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature used across all country test files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2829
File: tests/countries/test_canada.py:291-296
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T19:47:21.735Z
Learning: In the holidays library, HolidayBase objects automatically populate years on-demand when expand=True (the default). When checking dates from years not initially in the years range, those years are automatically populated via the logic at line 646 in holiday_base.py: "if self.expand and dt.year not in self.years:". This means tests can check dates outside the initial year range without needing separate holiday instances.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: holidays/countries/french_southern_territories.py:41-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T10:07:58.780Z
Learning: Territorial holiday classes that inherit from parent countries (like HolidaysAX from Finland, HolidaysSJ from Norway, HolidaysTF from France) follow a standard pattern of silently overriding self.subdiv in their _populate_public_holidays() method without validation, as this ensures they always use the correct subdivision code for their territory regardless of user input.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: tests/common.py:365-372
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:29:47.753Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with Islamic holidays inherit directly from the IslamicHolidays class (e.g., `class Afghanistan(HolidayBase, InternationalHolidays, IslamicHolidays)`). The separate `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes (like `AfghanistanIslamicHolidays`) are helper classes for specific date data, not the main country classes. Therefore, `isinstance(holidays_instance, IslamicHolidays)` is sufficient to detect all countries with Islamic holidays.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2706
File: holidays/countries/cayman_islands.py:50-55
Timestamp: 2025-07-10T15:55:34.523Z
Learning: The `islamic_show_estimated` parameter in country class constructors is only needed for countries that implement Islamic holidays (inherit from IslamicHolidays or _CustomIslamicHolidays groups). Countries with only Christian and secular holidays do not need this parameter.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2465
File: holidays/countries/suriname.py:219-251
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T19:10:31.502Z
Learning: The `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes in this project contain only exact verified holiday dates from reliable sources, rather than calculated or estimated future dates. This is by design to ensure accuracy, particularly for religious holidays that may follow lunar calendars or depend on local observations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2489
File: holidays/countries/sao_tome_and_principe.py:22-26
Timestamp: 2025-04-23T14:55:35.504Z
Learning: References in holidays classes should only be included if they're used for test case cross-checks or provide historical context about when holidays were added/removed, not just for the sake of having more references.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:171-184
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:14.456Z
Learning: In the holidays library, `_CustomIslamicHolidays` subclasses follow a consistent pattern of NOT having docstrings. They go directly to defining date dictionaries, as evidenced by Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and dozens of other country implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T21:00:47.849Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holidays use dedicated methods for additional days (like `_add_eid_al_fitr_day_two`, `_add_eid_al_adha_day_two`) rather than parameters. The methods don't accept a `days` parameter - each day has its own specific method.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:144-169
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:18.382Z
Learning: Custom holiday classes that extend _CustomHinduHolidays, _CustomIslamicHolidays, _CustomBuddhistHolidays, etc. in the holidays library do not use docstrings. They follow a pattern of using only inline comments above date dictionaries, as seen in Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:31-49
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:50:40.752Z
Learning: For Turkmenistan holiday tests, use this class structure: `class TestTurkmenistan(CommonCountryTests, TestCase)` with imports `from unittest import TestCase`, `from holidays.countries import Turkmenistan, TM, TKM`, and `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests`. Ensure to call `super().setUp()` in the setUp method.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2794
File: tests/calendars/test_julian.py:35-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-12T17:16:54.497Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays project calendar tests (Thai, Ethiopian, Julian, etc.), the established testing pattern for validation methods is to use simple for loops like `for year in known_data_dict:` followed by `self.assertEqual(expected, actual)` without using unittest's subTest feature. This pattern is consistently maintained across all calendar test files.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2614
File: holidays/countries/guyana.py:78-90
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T12:18:03.539Z
Learning: The holidays codebase now uses the constructor signature pattern `__init__(self, *args, islamic_show_estimated: bool = True, **kwargs)` across country classes.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:85-86
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:29:38.042Z
Learning: For testing holiday implementations in the vacanza/holidays repository, recommend using `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests` as the base class instead of directly using `unittest.TestCase` to maintain consistency with project conventions and leverage common test utilities.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2402
File: holidays/countries/trinidad_and_tobago.py:85-92
Timestamp: 2025-04-25T20:27:59.086Z
Learning: The `_populate_observed` method in holiday classes should maintain the same signature as the parent class `ObservedHolidayBase`, even if specific child class implementations don't use all parameters.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2362
File: tests/test_ical.py:31-40
Timestamp: 2025-03-23T16:59:25.794Z
Learning: In the holidays library's `TestIcalExporter` class, initializing `ICalExporter` with `None` is intentional. Using a mock object instead breaks tests because the constructor performs attribute validation with `getattr(self.holidays, "language", None)` which returns a mock with a mock object instead of `None`, causing validation failures. The approach isolates file operation tests from iCal generation logic.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2850
File: holidays/countries/christmas_island.py:75-80
Timestamp: 2025-08-22T19:06:04.303Z
Learning: Christmas Island's docstring for the `islamic_show_estimated` parameter follows the exact same format used consistently across all countries with Islamic holidays in the codebase: "Whether to add 'estimated' label to Islamic holidays name if holiday date is estimated." This is the standard, established pattern and should not be changed.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:29-34
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T17:55:09.799Z
Learning: In the holidays library, classes with multiple inheritance from various holiday groups (like ChristianHolidays, HinduCalendarHolidays, etc.) should initialize each parent class separately rather than using `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` because the parent classes have different parameter requirements. HolidayBase should receive the `*args, **kwargs` while other holiday group classes typically don't accept parameters like `observed`.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding contextual comments about holiday establishment dates, avoid making claims about specific laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions unless they can be verified from authoritative sources like official government legal databases, gazettes, or parliamentary records. Unverified legal claims should not be added to comments even if they seem plausible.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:140-155
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T06:52:25.511Z
Learning: In the holidays library Islamic calendar implementation, CONFIRMED_YEARS represents the full range of years that have been officially verified, while the individual EID_AL_FITR_DATES and EID_AL_ADHA_DATES dictionaries only contain entries for years where the official dates differ from the base Umm al-Qura algorithmic calculations. Years within CONFIRMED_YEARS but not in the explicit date dictionaries will use the base algorithm but be marked as "confirmed" rather than "estimated".

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2763
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-08T10:33:55.695Z
Learning: When verifying the country total in holidays/registry.py, isolate between '^COUNTRIES:' and '^FINANCIAL:' and count only lines matching the strict key pattern '^\s*"[a-z0-9_ ]+":\s*\(' to avoid overcounting non-entry quoted lines. As of PR vacanza/holidays#2763, this yields 227 entries.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py:127-128
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:22:11.939Z
Learning: The IvoryCoast class in holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py already includes documentation in its class docstring explaining the "day after" naming convention for Islamic holidays, noting that in the Islamic calendar, days begin at sunset and the "day after" refers to daylight hours following the night of celebration.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:32:15.760Z
Learning: In the holidays package, detailed historical context and additional information should be added as comments at the method level or above conditional blocks, while comments directly above tr() function calls should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.").

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2632
File: holidays/countries/solomon_islands.py:95-98
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T12:28:31.641Z
Learning: Library-wide holiday patterns and their optimizations should be handled at the base class level (like InternationalHolidays) rather than documenting workarounds in individual country modules. This maintains separation of concerns and avoids documentation duplication.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2834
File: holidays/financial/national_stock_exchange_of_india.py:38-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T20:10:05.288Z
Learning: For National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) holidays implementation, only `estimated_label = tr("%s (estimated)")` is needed for localization support. The `observed_label` and `observed_estimated_label` are not required for this financial market holidays implementation.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/groups/eastern.py:36-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T02:34:11.625Z
Learning: The default estimated_label change from "%s (estimated)" to "%s" in holidays/groups/eastern.py is intentional to remove English-only fallback text from localized holiday names. Countries that need estimated labels should define them properly with localization support rather than relying on the English fallback.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:13-13
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:51:16.449Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes with localization support consistently use `from gettext import gettext as tr` import and wrap class-level attributes like `estimated_label`, `observed_label`, and `observed_estimated_label` with `tr()` calls. This is the standard library-wide practice for l10n-enabled entities and is required for proper string extraction when generating .po files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/burkina_faso.py:27-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:24:41.827Z
Learning: Countries in the holidays library that don't have localization support yet should use plain English strings for labels (e.g., `estimated_label = "%s (estimated)"`), while only countries with existing .po translation files should use `tr()` wrapping. Check for the presence of .po files in holidays/locale to determine if a country has localization support.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/gabon.py:30-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T11:45:56.847Z
Learning: In the holidays library, maintainers have agreed to keep comments like "# %s (estimated)." above estimated_label declarations across country files, even though they duplicate the label content. This decision was made to maintain consistency and usefulness regardless of localization support status.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2794
File: holidays/groups/christian.py:328-343
Timestamp: 2025-08-11T10:14:28.517Z
Learning: For Ethiopian holidays in the `holidays/groups/christian.py` file, docstring wording should maintain source-accurate phrasing (e.g., "in coincidence of" for Ethiopian New Year/Enkutatash), even when it might read awkwardly in English, to ensure consistency with official Ethiopian documentation.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:73-77
Timestamp: 2025-04-03T12:36:41.201Z
Learning: In the Holidays library, comments explaining year restrictions for holidays should be placed above the year check conditional statement, not inside it. Example format:
```python
# reason why goes here
if start_year <= self._year <= end_year:
    # Holiday name
    self._add_holiday_function(tr("Holiday Name"))
```

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2774
File: tests/countries/test_liberia.py:33-46
Timestamp: 2025-08-08T14:35:35.829Z
Learning: In tests/countries/test_liberia.py, prefer neutral comments that reference the election-year rule for Inauguration Day (first Monday of January after an election year). Avoid naming specific winners; e.g., note “1976 follows the 1975 election,” not candidate details.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T21:22:13.125Z
Learning: In the holidays library, message comments directly above holiday addition methods must match the holiday name exactly without any additions, modifications, or explanatory text. For example, if the holiday name is "Eid al-Fitr Holiday", the comment should be "# Eid al-Fitr Holiday." with no extra context.

Learnt from: Wasif-Shahzad
PR: vacanza/holidays#2593
File: holidays/calendars/islamic.py:3993-3994
Timestamp: 2025-06-04T10:09:28.732Z
Learning: In the holidays/calendars/islamic.py file, the Islamic calendar date methods in the _IslamicLunar class (like ali_al_rida_death_dates, ashura_dates, etc.) follow a consistent pattern of being single-line methods that return self._get_holiday(CONSTANT, year) without docstrings. New methods should follow this same pattern for consistency.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2638
File: holidays/countries/svalbard_and_jan_mayen.py:1-12
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T11:42:28.293Z
Learning: In the holidays library codebase, country implementation files in holidays/countries/ follow a standard convention of NOT having module-level docstrings. They start with the license header comment block, followed by imports, then class definitions. This is consistent across all country implementations like austria.py, belgium.py, canada.py, etc.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:185-188
Timestamp: 2025-03-19T16:53:00.375Z
Learning: In the Fiji holidays implementation, the `special_public_holidays_observed` dictionary in `FijiStaticHolidays` is only used for exceptions to the normal observance rules, not for documenting all holidays. Only 2019's Constitution Day needed a special entry as it didn't follow the standard patterns.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2489
File: holidays/countries/sao_tome_and_principe.py:86-88
Timestamp: 2025-04-23T09:22:41.753Z
Learning: For holiday definitions in the holidays package, keep comments simple with just the holiday name (e.g., "# Independence Day.") rather than including dates or historical context, as the function names already encode the date information.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:249-253
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:02:13.815Z
Learning: Holiday name comments directly above tr() function calls in the holidays package should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.") without any additional context, dates, or historical information.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:171-183
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T15:15:05.919Z
Learning: In the Fiji holidays implementation, the maintainers are aware of the need to extend the MAWLID_DATES dictionary beyond 2025 when future official references become available, and will do so when appropriate. No suggestions about extending this dictionary should be made in future reviews.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:15-16
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T05:56:33.276Z
Learning: In the holidays library, when importing Gregorian month constants from holidays.calendars.gregorian, only import the months that are actually used in the date data. For example, if Islamic holiday dates only reference JUN, JUL, SEP, OCT, then only import those specific constants rather than importing additional unused months.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support consistently use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods (e.g., self._add_new_years_day(tr("Holiday Name"))). This is the established pattern across United States, Thailand, and other l10n-enabled countries, contrary to any suggestion that translation is handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations (confirmed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other countries).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:52-60
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:42:13.152Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes follow a consistent initialization pattern: first explicitly initializing each parent holiday group class with their specific parameters, then calling `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` at the end to properly initialize the base `HolidayBase` class.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2614
File: holidays/countries/guyana.py:78-90
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T12:18:03.539Z
Learning: The holidays codebase now uses the constructor signature pattern `__init__(self, *args, islamic_show_estimated: bool = True, **kwargs)` across country classes.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:31-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:27:54.605Z
Learning: In Nigerian holiday legislation: The Public Holidays Decree 1979 is the foundational document that established official holiday names (including Oct 1). The 1984 amendment only added Workers' Day. The 2004 consolidated version maintained existing holiday names without changes. When documenting Nigerian holidays, prioritize the 1979 decree for original holiday definitions, with later documents as amendments/consolidations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding comments for year-restricted holidays in Uganda and similar country modules, include specific legal or historical context such as the actual laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions that established the holidays, rather than just generic "since YEAR" information. For example, reference the specific Parliament act, decree, or historical event that created the holiday.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding contextual comments about holiday establishment dates, avoid making claims about specific laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions unless they can be verified from authoritative sources like official government legal databases, gazettes, or parliamentary records. Unverified legal claims should not be added to comments even if they seem plausible.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: Workers' Day in Nigeria became a national public holiday starting from 1985 based on the Public Holidays (Amendment) Decree 1984. Earlier observances at state level (e.g., Kano State in 1980) or potential workday status do not constitute national public holiday status.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:89-92
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:30:41.017Z
Learning: For Nigerian holidays, the 1985 Amendment is the authoritative source for Workers' Day addition to national public holidays, superseding any earlier state-level or workday category observances.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:140-155
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T06:52:25.511Z
Learning: In the holidays library Islamic calendar implementation, CONFIRMED_YEARS represents the full range of years that have been officially verified, while the individual EID_AL_FITR_DATES and EID_AL_ADHA_DATES dictionaries only contain entries for years where the official dates differ from the base Umm al-Qura algorithmic calculations. Years within CONFIRMED_YEARS but not in the explicit date dictionaries will use the base algorithm but be marked as "confirmed" rather than "estimated".

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are properly covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both the regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2720
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-07-17T11:07:04.986Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the holidays library by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2848
File: tests/countries/test_somalia.py:44-127
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T04:28:02.061Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holiday tests use `self.no_estimated_holidays = Country(years=years, islamic_show_estimated=False)` as the library-wide standard approach to simplify test cases. This pattern is intentional and preferred over testing estimated labels.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2635
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T12:59:53.286Z
Learning: Always verify country counts in the COUNTRIES dictionary by checking the current count in the COUNTRIES dictionary in holidays/registry.py directly, rather than relying on information from previous PRs, as the count changes frequently with new country additions.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2763
File: README.md:108-110
Timestamp: 2025-08-08T10:33:55.695Z
Learning: When verifying the country total in holidays/registry.py, isolate between '^COUNTRIES:' and '^FINANCIAL:' and count only lines matching the strict key pattern '^\s*"[a-z0-9_ ]+":\s*\(' to avoid overcounting non-entry quoted lines. As of PR vacanza/holidays#2763, this yields 227 entries.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2777
File: holidays/countries/gambia.py:120-122
Timestamp: 2025-08-03T13:48:11.910Z
Learning: When reviewing holiday implementations in the holidays library, defer to the maintainers' choice of start years for specific holiday policies, as they likely have access to more reliable primary sources and official documentation than what can be found through web searches.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py:127-128
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:22:11.939Z
Learning: The IvoryCoast class in holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py already includes documentation in its class docstring explaining the "day after" naming convention for Islamic holidays, noting that in the Islamic calendar, days begin at sunset and the "day after" refers to daylight hours following the night of celebration.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:32:15.760Z
Learning: In the holidays package, detailed historical context and additional information should be added as comments at the method level or above conditional blocks, while comments directly above tr() function calls should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.").

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:144-169
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:18.382Z
Learning: Custom holiday classes that extend _CustomHinduHolidays, _CustomIslamicHolidays, _CustomBuddhistHolidays, etc. in the holidays library do not use docstrings. They follow a pattern of using only inline comments above date dictionaries, as seen in Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:171-184
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:14.456Z
Learning: In the holidays library, `_CustomIslamicHolidays` subclasses follow a consistent pattern of NOT having docstrings. They go directly to defining date dictionaries, as evidenced by Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and dozens of other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2632
File: holidays/countries/solomon_islands.py:95-98
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T12:28:31.641Z
Learning: Library-wide holiday patterns and their optimizations should be handled at the base class level (like InternationalHolidays) rather than documenting workarounds in individual country modules. This maintains separation of concerns and avoids documentation duplication.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2834
File: holidays/financial/national_stock_exchange_of_india.py:38-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T20:10:05.288Z
Learning: For National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) holidays implementation, only `estimated_label = tr("%s (estimated)")` is needed for localization support. The `observed_label` and `observed_estimated_label` are not required for this financial market holidays implementation.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/groups/eastern.py:36-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T02:34:11.625Z
Learning: The default estimated_label change from "%s (estimated)" to "%s" in holidays/groups/eastern.py is intentional to remove English-only fallback text from localized holiday names. Countries that need estimated labels should define them properly with localization support rather than relying on the English fallback.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:13-13
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:51:16.449Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes with localization support consistently use `from gettext import gettext as tr` import and wrap class-level attributes like `estimated_label`, `observed_label`, and `observed_estimated_label` with `tr()` calls. This is the standard library-wide practice for l10n-enabled entities and is required for proper string extraction when generating .po files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/burkina_faso.py:27-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:24:41.827Z
Learning: Countries in the holidays library that don't have localization support yet should use plain English strings for labels (e.g., `estimated_label = "%s (estimated)"`), while only countries with existing .po translation files should use `tr()` wrapping. Check for the presence of .po files in holidays/locale to determine if a country has localization support.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: holidays/countries/gabon.py:30-30
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T11:45:56.847Z
Learning: In the holidays library, maintainers have agreed to keep comments like "# %s (estimated)." above estimated_label declarations across country files, even though they duplicate the label content. This decision was made to maintain consistency and usefulness regardless of localization support status.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:266-284
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:41:56.613Z
Learning: The Islamic holiday dates in the holidays library should only include officially verified dates, not predicted ones, to maintain accuracy. This is especially important for holidays that depend on lunar observations like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T20:36:15.300Z
Learning: In South Sudan holidays implementation, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays should use the ISLAMIC category system. The first day of each Eid is a national public holiday (appears in both PUBLIC and ISLAMIC categories), while additional days are typically Muslim-specific and should only appear in the ISLAMIC category through the _populate_islamic_holidays() method.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2850
File: holidays/countries/christmas_island.py:75-80
Timestamp: 2025-08-22T19:06:04.303Z
Learning: Christmas Island's docstring for the `islamic_show_estimated` parameter follows the exact same format used consistently across all countries with Islamic holidays in the codebase: "Whether to add 'estimated' label to Islamic holidays name if holiday date is estimated." This is the standard, established pattern and should not be changed.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2465
File: holidays/countries/suriname.py:219-251
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T19:10:31.502Z
Learning: The `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes in this project contain only exact verified holiday dates from reliable sources, rather than calculated or estimated future dates. This is by design to ensure accuracy, particularly for religious holidays that may follow lunar calendars or depend on local observations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2794
File: holidays/groups/christian.py:328-343
Timestamp: 2025-08-11T10:14:28.517Z
Learning: For Ethiopian holidays in the `holidays/groups/christian.py` file, docstring wording should maintain source-accurate phrasing (e.g., "in coincidence of" for Ethiopian New Year/Enkutatash), even when it might read awkwardly in English, to ensure consistency with official Ethiopian documentation.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:73-77
Timestamp: 2025-04-03T12:36:41.201Z
Learning: In the Holidays library, comments explaining year restrictions for holidays should be placed above the year check conditional statement, not inside it. Example format:
```python
# reason why goes here
if start_year <= self._year <= end_year:
    # Holiday name
    self._add_holiday_function(tr("Holiday Name"))
```

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2774
File: tests/countries/test_liberia.py:33-46
Timestamp: 2025-08-08T14:35:35.829Z
Learning: In tests/countries/test_liberia.py, prefer neutral comments that reference the election-year rule for Inauguration Day (first Monday of January after an election year). Avoid naming specific winners; e.g., note “1976 follows the 1975 election,” not candidate details.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T21:22:13.125Z
Learning: In the holidays library, message comments directly above holiday addition methods must match the holiday name exactly without any additions, modifications, or explanatory text. For example, if the holiday name is "Eid al-Fitr Holiday", the comment should be "# Eid al-Fitr Holiday." with no extra context.

Learnt from: Wasif-Shahzad
PR: vacanza/holidays#2593
File: holidays/calendars/islamic.py:3993-3994
Timestamp: 2025-06-04T10:09:28.732Z
Learning: In the holidays/calendars/islamic.py file, the Islamic calendar date methods in the _IslamicLunar class (like ali_al_rida_death_dates, ashura_dates, etc.) follow a consistent pattern of being single-line methods that return self._get_holiday(CONSTANT, year) without docstrings. New methods should follow this same pattern for consistency.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: tests/countries/test_nigeria.py:35-40
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:31:58.711Z
Learning: 2025-07-15 was declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Federal Government as a day of mourning for former President Muhammadu Buhari who died on July 13, 2025. It was not an election holiday but a mourning day.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: tests/countries/test_nigeria.py:35-40
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T15:31:58.710Z
Learning: 2010-05-06 was declared a public holiday by the Nigerian Federal Government as a day of mourning for President Umaru Yar'Adua who died on May 5, 2010. It was not an election holiday but a mourning day.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2638
File: holidays/countries/svalbard_and_jan_mayen.py:1-12
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T11:42:28.293Z
Learning: In the holidays library codebase, country implementation files in holidays/countries/ follow a standard convention of NOT having module-level docstrings. They start with the license header comment block, followed by imports, then class definitions. This is consistent across all country implementations like austria.py, belgium.py, canada.py, etc.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:185-188
Timestamp: 2025-03-19T16:53:00.375Z
Learning: In the Fiji holidays implementation, the `special_public_holidays_observed` dictionary in `FijiStaticHolidays` is only used for exceptions to the normal observance rules, not for documenting all holidays. Only 2019's Constitution Day needed a special entry as it didn't follow the standard patterns.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2489
File: holidays/countries/sao_tome_and_principe.py:86-88
Timestamp: 2025-04-23T09:22:41.753Z
Learning: For holiday definitions in the holidays package, keep comments simple with just the holiday name (e.g., "# Independence Day.") rather than including dates or historical context, as the function names already encode the date information.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:249-253
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:02:13.815Z
Learning: Holiday name comments directly above tr() function calls in the holidays package should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.") without any additional context, dates, or historical information.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2354
File: holidays/countries/fiji.py:171-183
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T15:15:05.919Z
Learning: In the Fiji holidays implementation, the maintainers are aware of the need to extend the MAWLID_DATES dictionary beyond 2025 when future official references become available, and will do so when appropriate. No suggestions about extending this dictionary should be made in future reviews.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:15-16
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T05:56:33.276Z
Learning: In the holidays library, when importing Gregorian month constants from holidays.calendars.gregorian, only import the months that are actually used in the date data. For example, if Islamic holiday dates only reference JUN, JUL, SEP, OCT, then only import those specific constants rather than importing additional unused months.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support consistently use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods (e.g., self._add_new_years_day(tr("Holiday Name"))). This is the established pattern across United States, Thailand, and other l10n-enabled countries, contrary to any suggestion that translation is handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2706
File: holidays/countries/cayman_islands.py:50-55
Timestamp: 2025-07-10T15:55:34.523Z
Learning: The `islamic_show_estimated` parameter in country class constructors is only needed for countries that implement Islamic holidays (inherit from IslamicHolidays or _CustomIslamicHolidays groups). Countries with only Christian and secular holidays do not need this parameter.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: tests/common.py:365-372
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:29:47.753Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with Islamic holidays inherit directly from the IslamicHolidays class (e.g., `class Afghanistan(HolidayBase, InternationalHolidays, IslamicHolidays)`). The separate `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes (like `AfghanistanIslamicHolidays`) are helper classes for specific date data, not the main country classes. Therefore, `isinstance(holidays_instance, IslamicHolidays)` is sufficient to detect all countries with Islamic holidays.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations (confirmed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other countries).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/countries/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines.py:39-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-07T11:19:38.945Z
Learning: In the holidays library, it's standard practice to explicitly call ChristianHolidays.__init__(self) and InternationalHolidays.__init__(self) in country class __init__ methods, even when these mixins don't define their own __init__ methods. This follows the established codebase convention across all country implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:52-60
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:42:13.152Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes follow a consistent initialization pattern: first explicitly initializing each parent holiday group class with their specific parameters, then calling `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` at the end to properly initialize the base `HolidayBase` class.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:29-34
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T17:55:09.799Z
Learning: In the holidays library, classes with multiple inheritance from various holiday groups (like ChristianHolidays, HinduCalendarHolidays, etc.) should initialize each parent class separately rather than using `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` because the parent classes have different parameter requirements. HolidayBase should receive the `*args, **kwargs` while other holiday group classes typically don't accept parameters like `observed`.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2465
File: holidays/countries/suriname.py:219-251
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T19:10:31.502Z
Learning: The `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes in this project contain only exact verified holiday dates from reliable sources, rather than calculated or estimated future dates. This is by design to ensure accuracy, particularly for religious holidays that may follow lunar calendars or depend on local observations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2874
File: holidays/countries/nigeria.py:31-44
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T22:55:34.475Z
Learning: For Nigeria holiday implementation reference ordering: The current ordering with Wikipedia first, followed by official sources, follows the newer standard for the holidays library and should not be changed to put legal sources first.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are properly covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both the regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2834
File: tests/financial/test_national_stock_exchange_of_india.py:342-360
Timestamp: 2025-08-30T12:52:58.513Z
Learning: In the NSE holidays implementation, assertLocalizedHolidays should only include holidays that are actually observed (trading holidays), not holidays that fall on weekends and are excluded by the observed_rule. For example, Eid al-Fitr 2023 falls on Saturday and is correctly excluded from localization tests.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2349
File: tests/countries/test_taiwan.py:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-03-13T15:17:45.519Z
Learning: For Taiwan's holiday system, different categories (GOVERNMENT, OPTIONAL, SCHOOL, WORKDAY) have distinct uses and contexts, justifying separate instances rather than parameterization in tests.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: tests/countries/test_andorra.py:23-28
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T21:07:11.577Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test methods for country holidays follow a standard form where year ranges are explicitly recreated in each test method rather than being stored as class variables, to maintain consistency across all country tests.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:52-64
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:47:27.213Z
Learning: For holiday tests in the vacanza/holidays project, structure tests by individual holidays rather than by years. Each test method should focus on a specific holiday and test it across multiple years (from start_year through 2050) using helper methods like `assertHolidayName`. For fixed holidays, use generators like `(f"{year}-01-01" for year in range(1991, 2051))`. For movable holidays, specify individual dates for specific years followed by a range check.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: tests/countries/test_nepal.py:499-536
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T06:49:06.217Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test files follow a dual testing approach: individual methods test specific holidays across multiple years, while comprehensive year-specific tests (e.g., `test_2025`) verify all holidays for a specific year in a single assertion. Both approaches serve different testing purposes and complement each other.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2863
File: tests/countries/test_georgia.py:31-36
Timestamp: 2025-08-28T02:42:52.725Z
Learning: In the holidays framework, when no categories parameter is specified in a country class instantiation (e.g., `Georgia(years=2025)`), the PUBLIC category is used by default. There's no need to explicitly specify `categories=PUBLIC` or import the PUBLIC constant for such test cases.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: tests/countries/test_finland.py:23-26
Timestamp: 2025-05-09T18:36:09.607Z
Learning: The holidays project prioritizes complete historical coverage in tests, verifying holidays from their first year of observance (e.g., 1853 for Finland) through future projections, rather than using shorter sliding windows.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2632
File: holidays/countries/solomon_islands.py:95-98
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T12:28:31.641Z
Learning: Library-wide holiday patterns and their optimizations should be handled at the base class level (like InternationalHolidays) rather than documenting workarounds in individual country modules. This maintains separation of concerns and avoids documentation duplication.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:85-86
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:29:38.042Z
Learning: For testing holiday implementations in the vacanza/holidays repository, recommend using `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests` as the base class instead of directly using `unittest.TestCase` to maintain consistency with project conventions and leverage common test utilities.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2615
File: tests/countries/test_anguilla.py:1-12
Timestamp: 2025-06-16T15:48:48.680Z
Learning: Test files in the holidays repository follow a standardized structure without module or class docstrings. All country test files use the same pattern: license header, imports, and class definition (`class Test{Country}(CommonCountryTests, TestCase):`) without docstrings. This is an established codebase convention that should be maintained for consistency.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:31-49
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:50:40.752Z
Learning: For Turkmenistan holiday tests, use this class structure: `class TestTurkmenistan(CommonCountryTests, TestCase)` with imports `from unittest import TestCase`, `from holidays.countries import Turkmenistan, TM, TKM`, and `from tests.common import CommonCountryTests`. Ensure to call `super().setUp()` in the setUp method.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2416
File: tests/countries/test_turkmenistan.py:52-64
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T04:33:53.254Z
Learning: For Turkmenistan holiday tests, recommend using CommonCountryTests as the base class rather than unittest.TestCase to follow project conventions, be consistent with other country test files, and gain access to common test utilities.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` or `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass, years=...)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature that matches the CommonCountryTests.setUpClass method which accepts test_class as the first parameter after cls. Pylint warnings about parameter count mismatch are false positives when comparing against TestCase.setUpClass instead of the immediate parent CommonCountryTests.setUpClass.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: tests/countries/test_wallis_and_futuna.py:19-23
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T17:01:58.067Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays repository, the standard pattern for test class setUpClass methods is `super().setUpClass(HolidayClass)` where HolidayClass is passed as the first argument. This is the correct signature used across all country test files.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2623
File: tests/countries/test_christmas_island.py:136-146
Timestamp: 2025-07-09T21:16:35.145Z
Learning: In Christmas Island's holiday implementation, the test_christmas_day method cannot use assertNoNonObservedHoliday because in some years observed Christmas Day overlaps with Boxing Day when both holidays are moved due to weekend conflicts, causing the standard non-observed holiday check to fail inappropriately.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are properly covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both the regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: holidays/countries/guinea.py:106-110
Timestamp: 2025-04-04T10:52:41.546Z
Learning: In the Guinea holidays implementation, observed Eid al-Fitr cases are covered by the test_eid_al_fitr_day() method, which tests both regular holiday dates and the observed dates when the holiday falls on a non-working day (for years >= 2023).

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2750
File: tests/countries/test_germany.py:46-46
Timestamp: 2025-07-24T15:21:31.632Z
Learning: In the holidays project test files, the standard method name for testing the absence of holidays is `test_no_holidays`, not more descriptive names like `test_no_holidays_before_1990`. This is a consistent naming convention across country test files like France and Germany.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2614
File: holidays/countries/guyana.py:78-90
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T12:18:03.539Z
Learning: The holidays codebase now uses the constructor signature pattern `__init__(self, *args, islamic_show_estimated: bool = True, **kwargs)` across country classes.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2848
File: tests/countries/test_somalia.py:44-127
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T04:28:02.061Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holiday tests use `self.no_estimated_holidays = Country(years=years, islamic_show_estimated=False)` as the library-wide standard approach to simplify test cases. This pattern is intentional and preferred over testing estimated labels.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2860
File: tests/common.py:365-372
Timestamp: 2025-08-26T21:29:47.753Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with Islamic holidays inherit directly from the IslamicHolidays class (e.g., `class Afghanistan(HolidayBase, InternationalHolidays, IslamicHolidays)`). The separate `_CustomIslamicHolidays` classes (like `AfghanistanIslamicHolidays`) are helper classes for specific date data, not the main country classes. Therefore, `isinstance(holidays_instance, IslamicHolidays)` is sufficient to detect all countries with Islamic holidays.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2829
File: tests/countries/test_canada.py:291-296
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T19:47:21.735Z
Learning: In the holidays library, HolidayBase objects automatically populate years on-demand when expand=True (the default). When checking dates from years not initially in the years range, those years are automatically populated via the logic at line 646 in holiday_base.py: "if self.expand and dt.year not in self.years:". This means tests can check dates outside the initial year range without needing separate holiday instances.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2609
File: holidays/countries/nauru.py:57-60
Timestamp: 2025-06-14T11:04:31.180Z
Learning: In the holidays library, the base `HolidayBase._populate()` method already includes a guard clause that prevents holiday population methods like `_populate_public_holidays()` from being called when the year is before `start_year` or after `end_year`. Therefore, individual country implementations do not need to add their own guard clauses for years before independence or other start dates.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2489
File: holidays/countries/sao_tome_and_principe.py:22-26
Timestamp: 2025-04-23T14:55:35.504Z
Learning: References in holidays classes should only be included if they're used for test case cross-checks or provide historical context about when holidays were added/removed, not just for the sake of having more references.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/countries/ivory_coast.py:84-85
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T08:08:31.656Z
Learning: Islamic holiday logic should be implemented in the holidays/groups/islamic.py file, with country-specific files only calling these methods with the appropriate translated names.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2783
File: tests/countries/test_eritrea.py:130-147
Timestamp: 2025-08-18T13:06:16.919Z
Learning: The `assertLocalizedHolidays` method in the vacanza/holidays project requires a complete list of all holidays from all categories (PUBLIC, GOVERNMENT, etc.), not just the holidays from the default category. This is a framework requirement for comprehensive localization testing.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2593
File: holidays/countries/senegal.py:66-110
Timestamp: 2025-06-06T14:40:31.932Z
Learning: In the holidays library, within the _populate_public_holidays method, holidays should be arranged by calendar type (Islamic holidays first, then Gregorian holidays) without additional type grouping comments. The organization by calendar type is sufficient and follows the project's established conventions.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:52-60
Timestamp: 2025-04-13T20:42:13.152Z
Learning: In the holidays library, country classes follow a consistent initialization pattern: first explicitly initializing each parent holiday group class with their specific parameters, then calling `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` at the end to properly initialize the base `HolidayBase` class.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2609
File: tests/countries/test_nauru.py:20-24
Timestamp: 2025-06-13T15:15:25.159Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays test suite, overriding `setUpClass` is intentionally done with the single `cls` parameter (no *args/**kwargs), so signature-mismatch lint warnings are ignored project-wide.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2386
File: holidays/countries/nepal.py:29-34
Timestamp: 2025-03-29T17:55:09.799Z
Learning: In the holidays library, classes with multiple inheritance from various holiday groups (like ChristianHolidays, HinduCalendarHolidays, etc.) should initialize each parent class separately rather than using `super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)` because the parent classes have different parameter requirements. HolidayBase should receive the `*args, **kwargs` while other holiday group classes typically don't accept parameters like `observed`.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2850
File: holidays/countries/christmas_island.py:75-80
Timestamp: 2025-08-22T19:06:04.303Z
Learning: Christmas Island's docstring for the `islamic_show_estimated` parameter follows the exact same format used consistently across all countries with Islamic holidays in the codebase: "Whether to add 'estimated' label to Islamic holidays name if holiday date is estimated." This is the standard, established pattern and should not be changed.