How can I get the current week using Python?

Question

Using Python...

How can I get a list of the days in a specific week?

Something like...

{
\'1\' : [\'01/03/2010\',\'01/04/2010\',\'01/05/2010\         


        

Answer 1

How do you identify weeks? Here I'm identifying by a day in that week, using a function which gets the Sunday in that week (what you used in your example), and then returns it plus the next 6 days.

import datetime

one_day = datetime.timedelta(days=1)

def get_week(date):
  """Return the full week (Sunday first) of the week containing the given date.

  'date' may be a datetime or date instance (the same type is returned).
  """
  day_idx = (date.weekday() + 1) % 7  # turn sunday into 0, monday into 1, etc.
  sunday = date - datetime.timedelta(days=day_idx)
  date = sunday
  for n in xrange(7):
    yield date
    date += one_day

print list(get_week(datetime.datetime.now().date()))
# [datetime.date(2010, 1, 3), datetime.date(2010, 1, 4),
#  datetime.date(2010, 1, 5), datetime.date(2010, 1, 6),
#  datetime.date(2010, 1, 7), datetime.date(2010, 1, 8),
#  datetime.date(2010, 1, 9)]
print [d.isoformat() for d in get_week(datetime.datetime.now().date())]
# ['2010-01-03', '2010-01-04', '2010-01-05', '2010-01-06', '2010-01-07',
#  '2010-01-08', '2010-01-09']