How do I get the day of week given a date?

If you'd like to have the date in English:

from datetime import date
import calendar
my_date = date.today()
calendar.day_name[my_date.weekday()]  #'Wednesday'

Use weekday():

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

From the documentation:

Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.

If you'd like to have the date in English:

from datetime import datetime
datetime.today().strftime('%A')
'Wednesday'

Read more: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior

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