day of week from date in datetime python 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 datetime weekday

from datetime import datetime
date_str='10-12-20'
datetime_object = datetime.strptime(date_str, '%m-%d-%y')
datetime_object.weekday()