Find Monday's date with Python

Question

How do I find the previous Monday\'s date, based off of the current date using Python? I thought maybe I could use: datetime.weekday() to do it, but I am gettin

Answer 1

I think the easiest way is using python-dateutil like this:

from datetime import date
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta, MO

today = date.today()
last_monday = today + relativedelta(weekday=MO(-1))
print last_monday