python-dateutil-rs

A high-performance Rust-backed port of python-dateutil (v2.9.0).

Status: All core modules (easter, relativedelta, parser, rrule, tz) are rewritten in Rust via PyO3/maturin. The optimized dateutil-core + dateutil-py architecture delivers 2x-897x speedups over python-dateutil.

Features

• Drop-in replacement for python-dateutil — same API, same behavior
• Rust-accelerated: easter, relativedelta, parser (parse / isoparse), rrule, tz, weekday
• Optimized core: zero-copy parser, PHF lookup tables, bitflag filters, buffer-reusing rrule
• Comprehensive test suite inherited from the original project
• Benchmark infrastructure for side-by-side performance comparison
• Python 3.10-3.14 supported on Linux and macOS

Installation

pip install python-dateutil-rs

Usage

from dateutil_rs import (
    parse, isoparse, relativedelta, rrule, rruleset, rrulestr,
    easter, gettz, tzutc, tzoffset,
    MONTHLY, MO, TU, WE, TH, FR, SA, SU,
)

# Parse date strings (zero-copy tokenizer)
dt = parse("2026-01-15T10:30:00+09:00")

# ISO-8601 strict parsing
dt = isoparse("2026-01-15T10:30:00")

# Relative deltas
next_month = dt + relativedelta(months=+1)

# Recurrence rules (buffer-reusing iterator)
monthly = rrule(MONTHLY, count=5, dtstart=parse("2026-01-01"))
dates = monthly.all()
dates = list(monthly)           # also iterable
first = monthly[0]              # indexing
subset = monthly[1:3]           # slicing
n = monthly.count()             # total occurrences
dt in monthly                   # membership test

# Timezones
tokyo = gettz("Asia/Tokyo")
utc = tzutc()

# Easter
easter_date = easter(2026)

Development

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+
• Rust toolchain
• uv (recommended) or pip

Setup

git clone https://github.com/wakita181009/dateutil-rs.git
cd dateutil-rs
uv sync --extra dev

Building

# Build the native extension
maturin develop --release

# Development build (faster compilation)
maturin develop -F python

Running Tests

# Run the test suite
uv run pytest tests/ -x -q

# Run with coverage
uv run pytest tests/ --cov=dateutil_rs

# Run Rust tests
cargo test -p dateutil-core
cargo test --workspace

Linting

uv run ruff check tests/ python/
uv run ruff format --check tests/ python/
uv run mypy python/
cargo clippy --workspace

Benchmarks

Benchmarks compare the original python-dateutil (PyPI) and the Rust extension (dateutil_rs) using pytest-benchmark.

Summary (vs python-dateutil)

Measured on Apple Silicon (M-series), Python 3.13, release build. Full results: benchmarks/RESULTS.md

# Install the original python-dateutil for comparison
uv pip install python-dateutil

# Run benchmarks
make bench

# Run and save results as JSON
make bench-save

Project Structure

dateutil-rs/
├── Cargo.toml                 # Workspace root
├── pyproject.toml             # Python project config (maturin)
├── crates/
│   ├── dateutil-core/         # Pure Rust optimized core (crates.io)
│   │   └── src/
│   │       ├── lib.rs         # Crate root, public API
│   │       ├── common.rs      # Weekday (MO-SU with N-th occurrence)
│   │       ├── easter.rs      # Easter date calculations
│   │       ├── error.rs       # Shared error types
│   │       ├── relativedelta.rs
│   │       ├── parser.rs      # parse() entry point
│   │       ├── parser/        # tokenizer, parserinfo, isoparser
│   │       ├── rrule.rs       # RRule entry point
│   │       ├── rrule/         # iter, parse (rrulestr), set
│   │       └── tz/            # tzutc, tzoffset, tzfile, tzlocal
│   └── dateutil-py/           # PyO3 binding layer → PyPI package
│       └── src/
│           ├── lib.rs         # Module registration
│           ├── py.rs          # Binding root + #[pymodule]
│           └── py/            # Per-module bindings (common, conv, easter, parser, relativedelta, rrule, tz)
├── python/dateutil_rs/        # Python package (maturin mixed layout)
│   ├── __init__.py            # Re-exports from Rust native module
│   ├── _native.pyi            # Type stubs for native module
│   ├── py.typed               # PEP 561 marker
│   └── parser.py              # parserinfo (Python subclass support)
├── tests/                     # Python test suite
├── benchmarks/                # pytest-benchmark comparisons
├── .github/workflows/         # CI (ci.yml, publish.yml)
├── Makefile
└── LICENSE

Crate Roles

Implementation Status

Roadmap

1. Python-only phase — Pure Python port with full test coverage ✅
2. Rust core + PyO3 bindings — easter, relativedelta, parser, weekday ✅
3. Rust rrule — Rewrite recurrence rules in Rust ✅
4. Rust tz — Rewrite timezone support in Rust ✅
5. Optimized core — zero-copy parser, buffer-reusing rrule, consolidated architecture ✅
6. Release — Publish dateutil-core to crates.io and python-dateutil-rs 1.0 to PyPI

License

MIT