Find the Friday of previous/last week in python

Question

Eg1. Suppose I have a day 4/30/07 .Then I need to get 4/27/07.

Eg2. Suppose I have a day 6/29/07 .Then I need to get 6/22/07.

Answer 1

Not specific to Friday, but given a day "taget_dayofweek" (where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6)

from datetime import datetime

target_dayofweek = 4  # Friday
current_dayofweek = datetime.now().weekday() # Today


if target_dayofweek <= current_dayofweek:
    # target is in the current week
    endDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(current_dayofweek - target_dayofweek)

else: 
    # target is in the previous week
    endDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(weeks=1) + timedelta(target_dayofweek - current_dayofweek)