pandas>=0.23.4 is required to not encounter the following error when passing a holidays argument, since earlier in earlier version pandas the concat does not have a sort argument.
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/fbprophet/forecaster.py", line 454, in construct_holiday_dataframe
all_holidays = pd.concat((all_holidays, holidays_to_add), sort=False)
TypeError: concat() got an unexpected keyword argument 'sort'
* Update and rename README to README.md and Unicode strings
Updated Readme file and converted from rst to markdown.
String contains ascii characters (converted to unicode string)
Signed-off-by: Mpho Mphego mpho112@gmail.com
* Deprecated import `from __future__ import unicode_literals` removed and ran isort module
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-December/147009.html
Included setuptool-git in the requirement.txt and updated `setup.py`
Reasons for this are highlighted here -> https://github.com/msabramo/setuptools-git#usage
* Allow both both hoidays and append holidays; match holidays in predict and fit
* Allow both both hoidays and append holidays; match holidays in predict and fit
* Add test for append_holiday features; minor fixes
* Add column name validation for append_holidays names; allow only one country
