get current day of week python code example

Example 1: get current week python

import datetime
my_date = datetime.date.today() # if date is 01/01/2018
year, week_num, day_of_week = my_date.isocalendar()
print("Week #" + str(week_num) + " of year " + str(year))

Example 2: get weekday from date python

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