title | type | language | tags | cover | dateModified | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date is weekday |
snippet |
python |
|
succulent-4 |
2020-11-02 |
Checks if the given date is a weekday.
- Use
datetime.datetime.weekday()
to get the day of the week as an integer. - Check if the day of the week is less than or equal to
4
. - Omit the second argument,
d
, to use a default value ofdatetime.today()
.
from datetime import datetime, date
def is_weekday(d = datetime.today()):
return d.weekday() <= 4
is_weekday(date(2020, 10, 25)) # False
is_weekday(date(2020, 10, 28)) # True