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\', o         


        

Answer 1

use date.weekday() Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime.date.weekday