Create trading holiday calendar with Pandas

Perhaps it is more straightforward to create the trade calendar from scratch, like so:

import datetime as dt

from pandas.tseries.holiday import AbstractHolidayCalendar, Holiday, nearest_workday, \
    USMartinLutherKingJr, USPresidentsDay, GoodFriday, USMemorialDay, \
    USLaborDay, USThanksgivingDay


class USTradingCalendar(AbstractHolidayCalendar):
    rules = [
        Holiday('NewYearsDay', month=1, day=1, observance=nearest_workday),
        USMartinLutherKingJr,
        USPresidentsDay,
        GoodFriday,
        USMemorialDay,
        Holiday('USIndependenceDay', month=7, day=4, observance=nearest_workday),
        USLaborDay,
        USThanksgivingDay,
        Holiday('Christmas', month=12, day=25, observance=nearest_workday)
    ]


def get_trading_close_holidays(year):
    inst = USTradingCalendar()

    return inst.holidays(dt.datetime(year-1, 12, 31), dt.datetime(year, 12, 31))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(get_trading_close_holidays(2016))
    #    DatetimeIndex(['2016-01-01', '2016-01-18', '2016-02-15', '2016-03-25',
    #                   '2016-05-30', '2016-07-04', '2016-09-05', '2016-11-24',
    #                   '2016-12-26'],
    #                  dtype="datetime64[ns]", freq=None)