how to get weekday from a given date in python?

Question

2001-10-18 I want to calculate weekday e.g. Monday, Tuesday from the date given above. is it possible in python?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9847213/which-day-of-week-given-a-date-python check this one out — Norbert Forgacs, May 19 '17 at 12:20
Possible duplicate of [which day of week given a date python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9847213/which-day-of-week-given-a-date-python) — gonczor, May 19 '17 at 12:20

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '17 at 12:26

10

Here is one way to do this:

dt = '2001-10-18'
year, month, day = (int(x) for x in dt.split('-'))    
answer = datetime.date(year, month, day).weekday()

answered May 19 '17 at 12:26

Amit Wolfenfeld

You can just use `format` to convert ISO datetime. – Cyzanfar Mar 15 '21 at 20:51

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 14 '19 at 17:55

6

There is the weekday() and isoweekday() methods for datetime objects.

edited Nov 14 '19 at 17:55

ChaimG

answered May 19 '17 at 12:23

Alix Eisenhardt

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