Loop through dates except for weekends

Question

So I have a script that has date arguments for different functions and I want it to loop through 01-01-2012 to 06-09-2012 not including weekends. I

Answer 1

Use the datetime.weekday() method. It returns values between zero and six, related to the weekdays. Saturday value is 5 and Sunday value is 6; so, if you skip the operation when these values appear, you skip weekdends:

start = datetime(2012, 1, 1)
end = datetime(2012, 10, 6)
delta = timedelta(days=1)
d = start
diff = 0
weekend = set([5, 6])
while d <= end:
    if d.weekday() not in weekend:
        diff += 1
    d += delta