Datetime Python - Next Business Day

Question

Two related issues: (1) All of the data I work with have weekday dates attached. At various points, I need to know what the next weekday is. I\'ve written something like the

Answer 1

I would use dateutil.rrule:

import datetime
from dateutil import rrule


holidays = [
    datetime.date(2012, 5, 1,),
    datetime.date(2012, 6, 1,),
    # ...
]

# Create a rule to recur every weekday starting today
r = rrule.rrule(rrule.DAILY,
                byweekday=[rrule.MO, rrule.TU, rrule.WE, rrule.TH, rrule.FR],
                dtstart=datetime.date.today())

# Create a rruleset
rs = rrule.rruleset()

# Attach our rrule to it
rs.rrule(r)

# Add holidays as exclusion days
for exdate in holidays:
    rs.exdate(exdate)


print rs[0]