Python: Number of the Week in a Month

Question

When specifying a date:

datetime.datetime(2011, 8, 15)

How can i get to know that this is the third week of the month?

What if I wa

Answer 1

Maybe http://labix.org/python-dateutil will help.

Other than that it's just math.

 from datetime import datetime, timedelta

    def week_of_month(date):
        month = date.month
        week = 0
        while date.month == month:
            week += 1
            date -= timedelta(days=7)

        return week