Convert Date String to Day of Week

Question

I have date strings like this:

'January 11, 2010' 

and I need a function that returns the day of the week, like

'mon', or 'monday' 

etc. I can't find this anywhere in the Python help. Anyone? Thanks.

Answer 1

You might want to use strptime and strftime methods from datetime:

>>> import datetime >>> datetime.datetime.strptime('January 11, 2010', '%B %d, %Y').strftime('%A') 'Monday' 

or for 'Mon':

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('January 11, 2010', '%B %d, %Y').strftime('%a') 'Mon' 

Answer 2

use date.weekday() Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime.date.weekday