Find the date for the first Monday after a given a date

Question

Given a particular date, say 2011-07-02, how can I find the date of the next Monday (or any weekday day for that matter) after that date?

Answer 1

You can start adding one day to date object and stop when it's monday.

>>> d = datetime.date(2011, 7, 2)
>>> while d.weekday() != 0: #0 for monday
...     d += datetime.timedelta(days=1)
... 
>>> d
datetime.date(2011, 7, 4)