Python

Python RSS

Day of Week

Thread Solved

•

Join Date: Jul 2005

Posts: 1,221

Reputation: bumsfeld will become famous soon enough

Solved Threads: 137

bumsfeld

Offline

Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

Day of Week

Aug 1st, 2005

Is there a way to get the day of the week when supplied with a date? Like November 11, 1911 may be a Monday?

•

Join Date: May 2005

Posts: 215

Reputation: shanenin is an unknown quantity at this point

Solved Threads: 16

shanenin

Offline

Posting Whiz in Training

Re: Day of Week

Aug 1st, 2005

you might find some good info here
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforum...ad20774-2.html

•

Join Date: Oct 2004

Posts: 4,005

Reputation: vegaseat is just really nice

Solved Threads: 928

vegaseat

Online

DaniWeb's Hypocrite

Re: Day of Week

Aug 1st, 2005

Python does make it look simple ...

 Help with Code Tags 
 python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
# day of the week of a given date
# date.weekday() returns 0 for Monday and so on, so pick the string from a list
 
from datetime import date
 
oldDate = date(1911, 11, 11)  # year, month, day
 
dayofWeek = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday']
print "The day of the week on %s was a %s" % (oldDate.strftime("%d%b%Y"), dayofWeek[date.weekday(oldDate)])
# day of the week of a given date
# date.weekday() returns 0 for Monday and so on, so pick the string from a list

from datetime import date

oldDate = date(1911, 11, 11)  # year, month, day

dayofWeek = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday']
print "The day of the week on %s was a %s" % (oldDate.strftime("%d%b%Y"), dayofWeek[date.weekday(oldDate)])