How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

Henry Chang goldspin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 13:30:57 EDT 2008


Awesome, that worked.  Thanks so much!

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>wrote:

> Henry Chang wrote:
>
>  Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6;
>> is there a way to get the actual names, such as "Monday ... Sunday"?  I
>> would like to do this without creating a data mapping.  :)
>>
>
> if you have a datetime or date object, you can use strftime with the
> appropriate formatting code.  see the library reference for details.
>
> if you have the weekday number, you can use the calender module:
>
> >>> import calendar
> >>> calendar.day_name[0]
> 'Monday'
>
> (the latter also contains abbreviated day names, month names, and a bunch
> of other potentially useful functions and mappings.)
>
> </F>
>
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