Day of Week

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

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Re: Day of Week

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

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Re: Day of Week

Python does make it look simple ...

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# 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)])

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