Python - Exclude weekends between two Dates

Question

I want to calculate the difference between the two dates but want to exclude the weekends from it . Below is the format of dates :

CreateDate  - 2017-08-29 1         


        

Answer 1

One more python way using isoweekday():

import datetime, pprint

# isoweekday: Monday is 1 and Sunday is 7
start_date = datetime.date(2017, 10, 1)
end_date = datetime.date(2017, 12, 31)
days = end_date - start_date
valid_date_list = {(start_date + datetime.timedelta(days=x)).strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
                        for x in range(days.days+1)
                        if (start_date + datetime.timedelta(days=x)).isoweekday() <= 5
                       }
print("Business Days = {}".format(len(valid_date_list)))