get the day of the week out of a date pyton code example

Example 1: python date get day

import datetime
dt = datetime.datetime.today()
year = dt.year
month = dt.month
day = dt.day

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