weekday datetime python code example

Example 1: python date and time

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
print (now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))


Output: 2020-06-19 10:34:45

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

Example 3: python datetime weekday

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

Example 4: python datetime get weekday name

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
print(now.strftime("%A"))