How do I get the day of week given a date?
Posted By: Anonymous
I want to find out the following:
given a date (datetime
object), what is the corresponding day of the week?
For instance, Sunday is the first day, Monday: second day.. and so on
And then if the input is something like today’s date.
Example
>>> today = datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 20)
>>> today.get_weekday() # what I look for
The output is maybe 6
(since it’s Friday)
Solution
Use weekday()
:
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.today()
datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 23, 23, 24, 55, 173504)
>>> datetime.datetime.today().weekday()
4
From the documentation:
Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.
Answered By: Anonymous
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