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

This will give the first next Monday after given date:

import datetime

def get_next_monday(year, month, day):
    date0 = datetime.date(year, month, day)
    next_monday = date0 + datetime.timedelta(7 - date0.weekday() or 7)
    return next_monday

print get_next_monday(2011, 7, 2)
print get_next_monday(2015, 8, 31)
print get_next_monday(2015, 9, 1)

2011-07-04
2015-09-07
2015-09-07