datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%d %m %Y').weekday() code example

Example 1: strptime python

import datetime
d =datetime.datetime.strptime("01/27/2012","%m/%d/%Y").strftime('%m/%d/%Y')
print d
01/27/2012

Example 2: strptime python

import datetime
d = datetime.datetime.strptime("01/27/2012", "%m/%d/%Y")
print(d)
output ....
2012-01-27 00:00:00