Creating a list of Mondays for a year
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Sun Sep 18 20:30:42 EDT 2005
George Sakkis wrote:
> "Chris" <secun at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Is there a way to make python create a list of Mondays for a given year?
>
> Get the dateutil package (https://moin.conectiva.com.br/DateUtil):
>
> import dateutil.rrule as rrule
> from datetime import date
>
> mondays2005 = tuple(rrule.rrule(rrule.WEEKLY,
> dtstart=date(2005,1,1),
> count=52,
> byweekday=rrule.MO))
Count should probably be at least "53" to catch the years when there are
that many Mondays.... such as 2001. Unfortunately, I suspect that will
screw it up for other years where there are only 52 (but I don't know
this dateutil package so someone who does would have to say for sure).
-Peter
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