python - Convert Date String to Day of Week

Question

I have date strings like this:

'January 11, 2010'

and I need a function that returns the day of the week, like

'mon', or 'monday'

etc. I can't find this anywhere in the Python help. Anyone? Thanks.

Answer 1

You might want to use strptime and strftime methods from datetime:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('January 11, 2010', '%B %d, %Y').strftime('%A')
'Monday'

or for 'Mon':

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('January 11, 2010', '%B %d, %Y').strftime('%a')
'Mon'