date of the week python dt. code example

Example 1: get weekday from date python

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.today()
datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 23, 23, 24, 55, 173504)
>>> datetime.datetime.today().weekday()
4

Example 2: python weekday

df['date_time'].dt.dayofweek #gives only the index(0-monday,6-sunday)
df['date_time'].dt.weekday_name #gives the day