How to get last Friday?

Question

The code below should return last Friday, 16:00:00. But it returns Friday of previous week. How to fix that?

now = datetime.datetime.now()
test = (now - date         


        

Answer 1

The principle is the same as in your other question.

Get the friday of the current week and, if we are later, subtract one week.

import datetime
from datetime import timedelta
now = datetime.datetime.now()
today = now.replace(hour=16,minute=0,second=0,microsecond=0)
sow = (today - datetime.timedelta(days=now.weekday()))
this_friday = sow + timedelta(days=4)
if now > this_friday:
     test = this_friday
else:
     test = this_friday + timedelta(weeks=-1)