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?

Answer 1

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()