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

There is easier way to do this using freq = 'B' for business day frequency.

import pandas as pd
dt = pd.date_range(start=datetime.date.today(), periods=10, freq='B')
dt

which gives you :

DatetimeIndex(['2018-08-13', '2018-08-14', '2018-08-15', '2018-08-16',
               '2018-08-17', '2018-08-20', '2018-08-21', '2018-08-22',
               '2018-08-23', '2018-08-24'],
              dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='B')

you check name of day also by:

dt.weekday_name

Index(['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Monday',
       'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday'],
      dtype='object')