Using Python to count the number of business days in a month?

Question

I am trying to write a Python script that will calculate how many business days are in the current month. For instance if month = August then businessDays

Answer 1

This is a long-winded way, but at least it works and doesn't require anything other than the standard modules.

import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now()
holidays = {datetime.date(now.year, 8, 14)} # you can add more here
businessdays = 0
for i in range(1, 32):
    try:
        thisdate = datetime.date(now.year, now.month, i)
    except(ValueError):
        break
    if thisdate.weekday() < 5 and thisdate not in holidays: # Monday == 0, Sunday == 6 
        businessdays += 1

print businessdays